Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 19
The child’s father was also a manitu, so he began burrowing and digging into the rock for his baby and he dug a channel.
Who acts: father, child · What happens: be, begin, burrow, dig · To what, where: manitu, rock, channel
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 (father, child), 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 child | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manitu | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 manitu | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 manitu | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 manitu | det |
| 8 | manitu | manitu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 manitu | parataxis |
| 13 | burrowing | burrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 digging | cc |
| 15 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 burrowing | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 digging | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 baby | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 baby | nmod:poss |
| 21 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 digging | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dug | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dug | nsubj |
| 24 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 channel | det |
| 26 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dug | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 manitu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the child's father | a manitu | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | burrow | gerund | child not said here | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | child not said here | the rock | for child's baby | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for baby=Theme | |||
| 5 | dig | past | child | a channel | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent channel=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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