Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 42
[7] The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco.
Who acts: 7 Indians · What happens: use, mix · To what, where: red willow bark
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 (7 Indians), 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 7 | punct |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Indians | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 use | advmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bark | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bark | amod |
| 10 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bark | compound |
| 11 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 mix | mark |
| 13 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tobacco | case |
| 15 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mix | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | the 7 Indians | the red willow bark | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient | |||
| 2 | mix | to-infinitive | the 7 Indians not said here | with tobacco | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tobacco=Co-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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