Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 173
He killed a moose and took its intestine end [described like an appendix], secuit penem in fragmenta, mixed these with fat, and made a smoked sausage out of the whole.
Who acts: Tunc, secuit penem · What happens: kill, take, describe, mix, make, smoke · To what, where: moose, intestine end, these, smoked sausage, whole
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 (Tunc, secuit penem), 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 | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moose | det |
| 4 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 killed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 end | nmod:poss |
| 8 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | compound |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 described | punct |
| 11 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 took | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 appendix | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 appendix | det |
| 14 | appendix | appendix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 described | obl |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 described | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 penem | punct |
| 17 | secuit | secuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 penem | compound |
| 18 | penem | penem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fragmenta | case |
| 20 | fragmenta | fragmenta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 penem | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mixed | punct |
| 22 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 penem | acl |
| 23 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 mixed | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fat | case |
| 25 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mixed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sausage | det |
| 30 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sausage | amod |
| 31 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 whole | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 whole | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 whole | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 made | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Tunc | a moose | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Tunc not said here | moose's intestine end | secuit penem in fragmenta parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | |||
| 3 | describe | participle | like a appendix | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mix | participle | secuit penem in fragmenta not said here | these | with fat | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with fat=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | make | past | Tunc not said here | a smoked sausage | the whole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sausage=Product | |||
| 6 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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