Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 98
The hook of bone formerly was fastened into a shank of wood and this tied to a line by a leather leader which the teeth of the fish could not sever.
Who acts: leather leader, teeth · What happens: fasten, tie, not sever · To what, where: hook, this, leather leader
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 (leather leader, teeth), 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 | 2 hook | det |
| 2 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bone | case |
| 4 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hook | nmod |
| 5 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 7 fastened | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fastened | aux:pass |
| 7 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 shank | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shank | det |
| 10 | shank | shank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shank | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fastened | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 line | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 line | det |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 leader | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leader | det |
| 21 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leader | compound |
| 22 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 sever | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 teeth | det |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sever | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 fish | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fish | det |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 teeth | nmod |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 sever | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 sever | advmod |
| 31 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 leader | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | the hook of bone | into a shank of wood; formerly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into shank=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle · passive | a leather leader | this | to a line | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to line=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | not sever | could | the teeth of the fish | a leather leader | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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