Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 188
Then he bethought himself of the squirrel’s tail, and at the same moment found himself transformed into a squirrel.
Who acts: voice · What happens: bethink, find, transform · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 squirrel | det |
| 7 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 squirrel | case |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bethought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bethought | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 found | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 squirrel | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 squirrel | det |
| 21 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | voice | voice | then | of the squirrel's tail | tree rules | ||
| 2 | find | past | voice not said here | voice | moment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | transform | participle | voice not said here | into a squirrel result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into squirrel=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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