Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 67
Next he got some birch bark peeled off and cleaned a big space near the fire, spreading the birch bark to put the meat on.
Who acts: djak · What happens: get, peel off, clean, spread, put on · To what, where: birch bark, big space, fire, 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 (djak), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 bark | det |
| 5 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bark | compound |
| 6 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | peeled | peel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bark | acl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 peeled | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cleaned | cc |
| 10 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 space | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 space | amod |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cleaned | obj |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cleaned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spreading | punct |
| 18 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cleaned | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bark | det |
| 20 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bark | compound |
| 21 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spreading | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spreading | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meat | det |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | djak | some birch bark | next property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | peel off | participle | some birch bark not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clean | past | djak not said here | a big space | the fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient | |||
| 4 | spread | gerund | djak not said here | the birch bark | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bark=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put on | to-infinitive | djak not said here | the meat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent meat=Goal |
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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