Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 86
He collected omne excrementum quod invenire potuit and made it into the shape of a man.
Who acts: man, omne excrementum · What happens: collect, quod, make · To what, where: invenire potuit, potuit, shape
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 (man, omne excrementum), 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 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | omne | omne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excrementum | compound |
| 4 | excrementum | excrementum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quod | nsubj |
| 5 | quod | quod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 collected | ccomp |
| 6 | invenire | invenire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 potuit | compound |
| 7 | potuit | potuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quod | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 collected | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 shape | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shape | det |
| 13 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shape | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | quod | present | omne excrementum | invenire potuit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | man not said here | potuit | the shape of a man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into shape=Product |
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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