Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 94
They carried away all his pieces of meat to their dens, but didn’t touch the pail of grease.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: carry away, not touch · To what, where: pieces, dens, pail
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 (kinds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pieces | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dens | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dens | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dens | den | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touch | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 touch | cc |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 touch | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 touch | advmod |
| 16 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carried | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pail | det |
| 18 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touch | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grease | case |
| 20 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pail | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | kinds = kind | answer's pieces of meat | kinds's dens | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to den=Destination | ||
| 2 | not touch | past · do-support | kinds = kind not said here | the pail of grease | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pail=Co-Theme |
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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