Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 149
He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them their food which he had brought back for them.
Who acts: djak · What happens: clean up, wash, dry, give, bring back · To what, where: young ones, partridges, food
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cleaned | nsubj |
| 2 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cleaned | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 washed | punct |
| 8 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cleaned | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dried | cc |
| 10 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 washed | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cleaned | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gave | ccomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 brought | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cleaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean up | past | djak | the young ones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wash | participle | djak not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dry | participle | djak not said here | partridges = partridge | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | ||||
| 4 | give | past | djak not said here | partridges = partridge | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | partridges's food | for partridges = partridge; which nsubj:pass; djak nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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