Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 114
Then Wiske·djak tied it to his tail and the Muskrat started off with it.
Who acts: Wiske djak, Muskrat · What happens: tie, start off · To what, where: work
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 (Wiske djak, Muskrat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tied | advmod |
| 2 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 djak | compound |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wiske | punct |
| 4 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tied | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Muskrat | det |
| 12 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 started | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 started | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Wiske djak | work | then | to djak's tail | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | start off | past | the Muskrat | with work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with it=Subeventuality |
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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