Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 127
He followed them and looked under the log, and there were the ants eating away on the Bear’s skull, devouring the brains.
Who acts: thing, ants · What happens: follow, look, be, eat away, devour · To what, where: ants, skull, brains
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 (thing, ants), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 log | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ants | det |
| 14 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 15 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ants | acl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 eating | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 skull | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bear | det |
| 19 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skull | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Bear | case |
| 21 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eating | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 devouring | punct |
| 23 | devouring | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 eating | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brains | det |
| 25 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 devouring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | thing | ants = ant | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | thing not said here | under the log | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under log=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | the ants | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat away | gerund | the ants not said here | the Bear's skull | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | devour | gerund | the ants not said here | the brains | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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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