Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 29
Tcaka·bįs was small and they thought the beaver would pull him through the hole into the ice.
Who acts: Tcaka, beaver · What happens: be, think, pull · To what, where: Otter, hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tcaka, beaver), 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 | Tcaka | Tcaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 3 bįs | punct |
| 3 | bįs | bį | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tcaka | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beaver | det |
| 10 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pull | aux |
| 12 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pull | obj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 hole | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 ice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ice | det |
| 19 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tcaka and bįs | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Tcaka | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull | would | the beaver | Otter | the hole | into the ice | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=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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