Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 46
Opening it, she beheld the otters, Now the man had made a mistake, for these were tame otters and belonged to the Bears.
Who acts: wife, these · What happens: open, behold, make, be, belong · To what, where: bag, otters, man
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 (wife, these), 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 | Opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 beheld | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Opening | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opening | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 otters | det |
| 7 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beheld | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 made | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beheld | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mistake | det |
| 15 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 otters | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 otters | case |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 otters | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 otters | cop |
| 20 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 otters | amod |
| 21 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 belonged | cc |
| 23 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bears | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Bears | det |
| 26 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 belonged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | wife not said here | bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | wife | the otters | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer otter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the man | now | a mistake obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | these | for tame otters | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | belong | past | to the Bears | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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