Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 162
There was a time when Lynx had two wives, the one a Rabbit and the other a Marten.
Who acts: time, Lynx, one · What happens: be, have, rabbit · To what, where: two wives
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 (time, Lynx, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 had | advmod |
| 6 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wives | nummod |
| 9 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rabbit | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wives | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Marten | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Marten | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Marten | det |
| 19 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Lynx | two wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rabbit | the one | a other Marten conj | tree rules |
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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