Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 183
One day he saw seven deer walking along, each holding the other’s tail in its mouth.
Who acts: hunter, seven deer, each · What happens: see, walk, hold · To what, where: seven deer, tail, mouth
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, seven deer, each), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 deer | nummod |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 deer | acl |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 walking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 holding | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 holding | nsubj |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 other | case |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | hunter | seven deer | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | seven deer not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | each | the other's tail | tail's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in mouth=Location |
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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