Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 64
“No,” answered the mother, “I caught them with a pole snare and poked them with a stick in order to bloat them with blood, so they will make more bouillon.”
Who acts: mother, bows · What happens: answer, catch, poke, bloat, make · To what, where: bows, more bouillon · 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, bows), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 snare | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snare | det |
| 15 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snare | compound |
| 16 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poked | cc |
| 18 | poked | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 poked | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 stick | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stick | det |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poked | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bloat | mark |
| 26 | bloat | bloat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 poked | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bloat | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 blood | case |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bloat | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 make | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 bouillon | amod |
| 36 | bouillon | bouillon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | past | the mother = mother | bows = bow | with a pole snare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | poke in a quote | past | the mother = mother not said here | bows = bow | with a stick in order | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with stick=Instrument | |||
| 4 | bloat in a quote | to-infinitive | the mother = mother not said here | bows = bow | with blood | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | future | bows = bow | more bouillon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bouillon=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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