Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 70
They dried their moccasins, put them on, and also put on rabbit skin blankets, for they were preparing to run out during the night.
Who acts: people · What happens: dry, put on, put, prepare, run out · To what, where: moccasins, people, rabbit skin blankets
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dried | nsubj |
| 2 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 4 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dried | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dried | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 blankets | case |
| 14 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blankets | compound |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blankets | compound |
| 16 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 preparing | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 preparing | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 preparing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 preparing | aux |
| 21 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 put | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 run | mark |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 preparing | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 run | compound:prt |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | people | people's moccasins | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient moccasin=Result | ||||
| 2 | put on | infinitive | people not said here | people | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | people not said here | rabbit skin blankets | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on blanket=Destination | ||||
| 4 | prepare | past · progressive | people | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | run out not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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