Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 54
The metacarpal bone of a beaver’s hind leg, with its sinew covering, is taken and cut nearly through, so that it will break easily.
Who acts: kind · What happens: take, cut, break · To what, where: metacarpal bone
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 (kind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bone | det |
| 2 | metacarpal | metacarpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bone | compound |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 leg | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beaver | det |
| 6 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 beaver | case |
| 8 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leg | amod |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bone | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covering | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 covering | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 covering | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sinew | sinew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covering | compound |
| 14 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bone | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bone | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cut | cc |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 taken | conj |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 through | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADV | _ | 19 cut | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 break | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 break | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 break | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 break | aux |
| 27 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | parataxis |
| 28 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 27 break | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the metacarpal bone of a beaver's hind leg and kind's sinew covering | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut | participle | through property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | break | future | kind | easily property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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