Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 106
Using his teeth at last he tore open the bundles and the Summer-birds flew free into the air.
Who acts: water, you, Summer birds · What happens: use, tore, open, fly · To what, where: teeth, last, bundles, air
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, you, Summer birds), 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 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 open | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Using | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Using | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tore | nsubj |
| 7 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | acl:relcl |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bundles | det |
| 10 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 13 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 birds | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Summer | punct |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | conj |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flew | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | water's teeth | last | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tore | past | water | last not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | imperative | you not said here | the bundles | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bundle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | the Summer birds | into the air result; free property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=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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