Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 49
The “Hell-diver” pulled his knife and cut the bladder of blood which hung about his neck, upsetting the canoe at the same time.
Who acts: Hell diver, bladder · What happens: pull, cut, hang, upset · To what, where: knife, bladder, canoe
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 (Hell diver, bladder), 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 | 5 diver | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 diver | punct |
| 3 | Hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 diver | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hell | punct |
| 5 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 diver | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pulled | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bladder | det |
| 13 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bladder | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hung | nsubj |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bladder | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 upsetting | punct |
| 22 | upsetting | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cut | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 canoe | det |
| 24 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 upsetting | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 upsetting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the Hell diver | Diver's knife | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | the Hell diver not said here | the bladder of blood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bladder=Product | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the bladder of blood | about Diver's neck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about neck=Location | ||||
| 4 | upset | gerund | the Hell diver not said here | the canoe | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus canoe=Experiencer |
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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