Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 173
While Rabbit was pulling the beaver out of the hole and had hold of his hind quarters, Lynx came along and tickled Rabbit, so that she let go and the beaver escaped.
Who acts: Rabbit, Lynx, float, beaver · What happens: pull, have, come along, tickle, let, go · To what, where: beaver, hole, hold, Rabbit, hind quarters
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, Lynx, float, beaver), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 pulling | mark |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pulling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulling | aux |
| 4 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 came | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beaver | det |
| 6 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulling | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulling | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulling | conj |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 quarters | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quarters | amod |
| 17 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hold | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulling | punct |
| 19 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tickled | cc |
| 23 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 24 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tickled | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 let | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 let | nsubj |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | parataxis |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 escaped | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 beaver | det |
| 33 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 escaped | nsubj |
| 34 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · progressive | Rabbit | the beaver | the hole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme out hole=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | Rabbit not said here | hold of beaver's hind quarters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come along | past | Lynx | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tickle | past | Lynx not said here | Rabbit | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | let | past | float | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | float not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | escape | past | the beaver | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hold | beaver's hind quarters | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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