Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 87
Their mother was killed and the Iroquois had cut off her breasts and made babiche strings [57] of it.
What happens: kill, cut off, make · To what, where: mother, Iroquois, babiche strings
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: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cut | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Iroquois | det |
| 7 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 killed | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 breasts | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | conj |
| 15 | babiche | babiche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strings | compound |
| 16 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 57 | punct |
| 18 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 57 | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 57 | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | sons's mother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | the Iroquois | off mother's breasts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | babiche strings | 57 of string obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=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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