Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 48
[8] Pαgwa′k·wut pugəma′gan “arrow-head hammer,” an old style of war club with a stone set in a big wooden head attached to a handle and swung by a thong from the warrior’s elbow to leave his hand free.
Who acts: wut · What happens: gan, set, attach, swing, leave · To what, where: stone, big wooden head, hand, 8 k
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 (wut), 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 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 k | compound |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | Pαgwa | Pαgwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 k | nsubj |
| 5 | ′ | ′ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pαgwa | flat |
| 6 | k | thousand | NUM | Abbr=Yes NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 11 gan | punct |
| 8 | wut | wut | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 gan | nsubj |
| 9 | pugəma | pugəma | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 wut | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ′ | ′ | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 wut | flat:foreign |
| 11 | gan | gan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 k | conj |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammer | punct |
| 13 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrow | punct |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hammer | compound |
| 16 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gan | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammer | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammer | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 style | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 style | amod |
| 21 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hammer | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 club | case |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | compound |
| 24 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 style | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 stone | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stone | det |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | nmod |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 stone | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 head | det |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 head | amod |
| 32 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 head | amod |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 34 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 head | acl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 handle | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 handle | det |
| 37 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 attached | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 swung | cc |
| 39 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 set | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 thong | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 thong | det |
| 42 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 swung | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 elbow | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 warrior | det |
| 45 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 warrior | case |
| 47 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 thong | nmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 leave | mark |
| 49 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 elbow | acl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 hand | nmod:poss |
| 51 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 leave | obj |
| 52 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leave | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 k | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gan | wut | head hammer and a old style of war club with a stone appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | participle | a stone not said here | a big wooden head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | attach | participle | a big wooden head not said here | to a handle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to handle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | swing | participle | by a thong from the warrior's elbow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by thong=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | Pαgwa's hand | free property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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