Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 60
She answered, “I cut a pole, put a string there on the end, and catch them by the neck, since I have no bow.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: answer, cut, put, catch, have · To what, where: pole, string, end, poles, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 cut | nsubj |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pole | det |
| 8 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 string | det |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 put | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 catch | cc |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 neck | det |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 catch | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 catch | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 bow | det |
| 29 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut in a quote | present | mother | a pole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Product | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | mother not said here | a string | there | on the end | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme on end=Destination | ||
| 4 | catch in a quote | infinitive | mother not said here | poles = pole | by the neck | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | mother | no bow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=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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