Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 64
Now these old women had some grease in a bark dish and one of them put some of the grease in a cooking pail.
Who acts: old women, one · What happens: have, put · To what, where: grease, bark dish, some, cooking pail
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 (old women, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 women | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 women | amod |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 grease | det |
| 7 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dish | det |
| 10 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dish | compound |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 put | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grease | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grease | det |
| 20 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 some | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pail | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pail | det |
| 23 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pail | compound |
| 24 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this old women | some grease | a bark dish | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Patient | ||
| 2 | put | past | one of women | some of the grease | a cooking pail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme in pail=Destination |
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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