Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 47
He filled a portion of its entrails with blood and hung it around his neck, then started for home.
Who acts: Loon · What happens: fill, hang, start · To what, where: portion, neck
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on 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 (Loon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 portion | det |
| 4 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 entrails | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 entrails | nmod:poss |
| 7 | entrails | entrail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 portion | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blood | case |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entrails | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hung | cc |
| 11 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hung | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hung | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 started | advmod |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 started | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Loon | a portion of portion's entrails with blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | Loon not said here | portion | Loon's neck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 3 | start | past | Loon not said here | then | for home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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