Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 171
Then Rabbit went home and told Marten, and they both were glad to get a beaver and save their lives.
Who acts: you, Rabbit · What happens: rabbit, go, tell, be, get, save · To what, where: Marten, beaver, lives · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Rabbit), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Rabbit | advmod |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rabbit | ccomp |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glad | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beaver | det |
| 17 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 save | cc |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 get | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lives | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 save | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | imperative | you not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | you not said here | Marten | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent marten=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Rabbit | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | a beaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beaver=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | save | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | Rabbit's lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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