Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 142
These hunters, however, made a mistake and forgot to save that bone.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: make, forget, not save · To what, where: mistake, bone
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 (hunters), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunters | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mistake | det |
| 8 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgot | cc |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 save | mark |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forgot | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bone | det |
| 14 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this hunters | a mistake | however property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | |||
| 2 | forget | past | this hunters not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not save | to-infinitive | this hunters not said here | that bone | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
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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