Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 78
But his teeth got burned with the heat, and so they are brown to this day, but the sun is here and we have the daylight.
Who acts: teeth, sun, we · What happens: burn, be, have · To what, where: teeth, daylight
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 (teeth, sun, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 burned | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burned | aux:pass |
| 5 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 heat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heat | det |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brown | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 brown | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brown | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brown | cop |
| 14 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 burned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 here | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 here | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 here | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | cop |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 burned | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 daylight | det |
| 28 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · passive | animal's teeth | with the heat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with heat=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | present | teeth = tooth | day | brown property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the sun | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | we | the daylight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daylight=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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