Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 66
Then she took the spoon to taste her grease, but found it gone.
Who acts: number · What happens: take, taste, find · To what, where: spoon, grease
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 (number), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spoon | det |
| 5 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 taste | mark |
| 7 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grease | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taste | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | number | the spoon | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | |||
| 2 | taste | to-infinitive | number not said here | number's grease | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme grease=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | find | past | number not said here | grease | gone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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