Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 105
So he tied the bladder of grease to a stick and let it swing in the current of the river to cool it.
Who acts: grease, meat · What happens: tie, let, swing, cool · To what, where: bladder, meat
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grease, meat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bladder | det |
| 5 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grease | case |
| 7 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bladder | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stick | det |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tied | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 current | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 current | det |
| 17 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 current | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cool | mark |
| 22 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swing | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cool | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | grease | the bladder of grease | to a stick | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient to stick=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | grease not said here | meat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swing | infinitive | meat not said here | in the current of the river | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in current=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | cool | to-infinitive | meat not said here | meat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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