Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 167
Lynx beat his wives because they couldn’t find the beaver.
Who acts: Lynx · What happens: beat, not find · To what, where: wives, beaver
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 (Lynx), 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 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wives | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beat | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beat | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beaver | det |
| 11 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | Lynx | Marten's wives | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | could | Lynx | the beaver | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Topic |
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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