Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 40
Squirrels are usually cooked by splitting the carcass, after it has been skinned, and roasting it in the flames until done.
Who acts: roasting · What happens: cook, split, skin, roast, do · To what, where: Squirrels, carcass
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: who acts (roasting), 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 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux:pass |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 cooked | advmod |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 splitting | mark |
| 6 | splitting | split | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cooked | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carcass | det |
| 8 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 splitting | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 skinned | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 skinned | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 skinned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 skinned | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 skinned | aux:pass |
| 14 | skinned | skin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cooked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 done | cc |
| 17 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 done | csubj:pass |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 roasting | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 flames | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flames | det |
| 21 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roasting | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cooked | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · passive | Squirrels | usually property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | split | gerund | the carcass | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient | |||||
| 3 | skin | present · perfect · passive | carcass | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | roast | gerund | carcass | in the flames | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in flame=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | do | participle | roasting | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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