Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 74
Pretty soon she touched him with the poker and then he took off his coat of fisher-skin which he was wearing and threw in into the door-way.
Who acts: number, son, fisher skin · What happens: touch, take off, wear, throw · To what, where: son, coat, door way
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, son, fisher skin), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 touched | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 poker | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poker | det |
| 8 | poker | poker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 17 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fisher | punct |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coat | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 wearing | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wearing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wearing | aux |
| 23 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 skin | acl:relcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 threw | cc |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 way | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 door | punct |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | number | son | with the poker; soon property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with poker=Instrument | |||
| 2 | take off | past | son | son's coat of fisher skin | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | |||
| 3 | wear | past · progressive | fisher skin | son nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | son not said here | the door way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in way=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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