Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 77
At last the Beaver-mouse managed to cut it with his teeth and freed it.
What happens: manage, cut, free · To what, where: mouse
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 mouse | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 4 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mouse | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Beaver | punct |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 managed | obl |
| 7 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 managed | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 freed | cc |
| 15 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 managed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 freed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | at the last Beaver mouse | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | mouse | with animal's teeth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tooth=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | free | past | mouse | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source |
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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