Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 49
At last, when the giant women needed grease, they dipped up Tcaka·bįs with a wooden spoon and threw him outside.
Who acts: giant women, women · What happens: need, dip up, throw · To what, where: grease, Tcaka bįs, last, man
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 (giant women, women), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dipped | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 needed | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 needed | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 women | amod |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 needed | nsubj |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | conj |
| 9 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dipped | nsubj |
| 12 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dipped | compound:prt |
| 14 | Tcaka | Tcaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bįs | compound |
| 15 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 16 bįs | punct |
| 16 | bįs | bį | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dipped | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 spoon | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spoon | det |
| 19 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spoon | amod |
| 20 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bįs | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dipped | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 22 threw | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | the giant women | grease | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dip up | past | women = woman | Tcaka bįs | last | with a wooden spoon | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bį=Theme at last=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | throw | past | women = woman not said here | man | outside property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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