Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 151
He was very sore and disgusted and showed his father the fresh mark of his foot where the flat bone was lost, when they asked him what was the matter.
Who acts: hunter, feet · What happens: be, disgust, show, lose, ask, mark · To what, where: fresh mark, father, flat bone, hunter, matter, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunter, feet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sore | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sore | advmod |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 disgusted | cc |
| 6 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sore | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 showed | cc |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showed | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mark | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mark | amod |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | nmod |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 lost | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bone | det |
| 19 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bone | amod |
| 20 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 foot | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asked | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 asked | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | nsubj |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 showed | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | iobj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 matter | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 matter | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 matter | det |
| 31 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hunter | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disgust | participle | hunter not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | show | past | hunter not said here | the fresh mark of hunter's foot | hunter's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient mark=Topic | |||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | the flat bone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | feet = foot | hunter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the matter | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mark | hunter's foot | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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