Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 34
(2) Wiske·djak Kills the Bear and Gets his Head Fastened in the Skull.
Who acts: Wiske djak, Gets · What happens: kill, fasten · To what, where: Bear, Skull
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, Gets), 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 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Wiske | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 djak | compound |
| 5 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 6 djak | punct |
| 6 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Kills | nsubj |
| 7 | Kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bear | det |
| 9 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Kills | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Fastened | cc |
| 11 | Gets | Get | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Fastened | nsubj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gets | appos |
| 14 | Fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Kills | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Skull | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Skull | det |
| 17 | Skull | Skull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fastened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Wiske djak | the Bear | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Gets | the Skull | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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