Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 4
In order to foretell the sex of the child about to be born, the first vertebra of a moose or deer may be used.
What happens: foretell about, bear, use, sex · To what, where: sex, first vertebra, child
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 foretell | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 foretell | mark |
| 4 | foretell | foretell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sex | det |
| 6 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foretell | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 child | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sex | nmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 foretell | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 born | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 foretell | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 used | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vertebra | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 vertebra | amod |
| 17 | vertebra | vertebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 used | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 moose | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moose | det |
| 20 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vertebra | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 deer | cc |
| 22 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moose | conj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 used | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 used | aux:pass |
| 25 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 born | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 foretell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell about | to-infinitive | the sex of the child | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sex=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 3 | use | may · passive | the first vertebra of a moose or deer | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sex | the child | nom sex «act transitive»: of=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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