Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 122
The great Snake was not killed, but his pieces turned into small snakes which we see all about to-day.
Who acts: pieces, we · What happens: not kill, turn, see · To what, where: great Snake, small snakes
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Snake | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Snake | amod |
| 3 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 killed | advmod |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 snakes | case |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snakes | amod |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 see | obj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 about | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 about | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | past · passive | the great Snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | stroke's pieces | into small snakes result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | present | we | small snakes | tree rules |
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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