Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 60
By being very careful and not touching the skulls, he gained the inside of the rock house without making any noise.
Who acts: smoke · What happens: be, not touch, gain, make · To what, where: skulls, inside, noise
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 (smoke), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 careful | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 careful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 careful | advmod |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gained | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 touching | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 touching | advmod |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 careful | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skulls | det |
| 9 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gained | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gained | nsubj |
| 12 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inside | det |
| 14 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gained | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inside | nmod |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 making | mark |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gained | advcl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | smoke not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not touch | gerund | smoke not said here | the skulls | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skull=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | gain | past | smoke | the inside of the rock house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | smoke not said here | any noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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