Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 170
So Rabbit went to a beaver place, and putting a stick in the hole, she felt a beaver in it.
Who acts: Rabbit, three · What happens: go, put, feel · To what, where: beaver place, stick, hole, 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 (Rabbit, three), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | compound |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 putting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 putting | cc |
| 10 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stick | det |
| 12 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 beaver | det |
| 20 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rabbit | a beaver place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | Rabbit not said here | a stick | the hole | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in hole=Destination | |||
| 3 | feel | past | three | a beaver | hole | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme in it=Location |
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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