Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming… / Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 / 8

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 8

Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which keeps the bark spread, extended over the ends of the bark and kept it from opening inwards.

Who acts: djak, centre stick · What happens: make, keep, spread, extend, open · To what, where: door, bark, ends, stick

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, centre stick), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possobjcasecompoundnmodpunctmarkfixeddetcompoundnsubjpunctnsubjacl:relcldetobjconjpunctconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjobjmarkadvcladvmodpunctrootThenADVhePRONmadeVERBhisPRONdoorNOUNofADPbirchNOUNbarkNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJtheDETcentreNOUNstickNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONkeepsVERBtheDETbarkNOUNspreadVERB,PUNCTextendedVERBoverADPtheDETendsNOUNofADPtheDETbarkNOUNandCCONJkeptVERBitPRONfromSCONJopeningVERBinwardsADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 madeadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 madensubj
3mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 doornmod:poss
5doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing3 madeobj
6ofofADP_8 barkcase
7birchbirchNOUNNumber=Sing8 barkcompound
8barkbarkNOUNNumber=Sing5 doornmod
9,,PUNCT_20 spreadpunct
10sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ20 spreadmark
11thatthatSCONJ_10 sofixed
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 stickdet
13centrecentreNOUNNumber=Sing14 stickcompound
14stickstickNOUNNumber=Sing20 spreadnsubj
15,,PUNCT_17 keepspunct
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 keepsnsubj
17keepskeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 stickacl:relcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 barkdet
19barkbarkNOUNNumber=Sing17 keepsobj
20spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 madeconj
21,,PUNCT_22 extendedpunct
22extendedextendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 spreadconj
23overoverADP_25 endscase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 endsdet
25endsendNOUNNumber=Plur22 extendedobl
26ofofADP_28 barkcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 barkdet
28barkbarkNOUNNumber=Sing25 endsnmod
29andandCCONJ_30 keptcc
30keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 madeconj
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 keptobj
32fromfromSCONJ_33 openingmark
33openingopenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 keptadvcl
34inwardsinwardsADV_33 openingadvmod
35..PUNCT_3 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastdjakdjak's door of birch barkthenvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Product
2keeppresentthe centre stickthe barkvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme
3spreadpastthe centre stickvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4extendparticiplethe centre stick not said hereover the ends of the barkvn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over end=Path
5keeppastdjak not said herestickvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6opengerunddjak not said hereinwards propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/6/8/