Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 105
[44] To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabins beneath the ice.
Who acts: 44 · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: beaver, fish, cabins
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (44), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 44 | punct |
| 2 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 44 | punct |
| 4 | To | to | PART | _ | 5 drive | mark |
| 5 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 44 | advcl |
| 6 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drive | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hunt | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hunt | mark |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hunt | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 driving | mark |
| 12 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hunt | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driving | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 cabins | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cabins | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cabins | cabin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 driving | obl |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 ice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ice | det |
| 19 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cabins | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | to-infinitive | 44 not said here | beaver | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | 44 | fish obj; hunt property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | 44 not said here | fish | fish's cabins beneath the ice | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from cabin=Trajectory |
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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