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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bark | case |
| 7 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bark | compound |
| 8 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spread | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 spread | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stick | det |
| 13 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stick | compound |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stick | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bark | det |
| 19 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obj |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 extended | punct |
| 22 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 spread | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 ends | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ends | det |
| 25 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 extended | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bark | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bark | det |
| 28 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ends | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kept | cc |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kept | obj |
| 32 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 33 opening | mark |
| 33 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 kept | advcl |
| 34 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 33 opening | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | djak | djak's door of birch bark | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Product | |||
| 2 | keep | present | the centre stick | the bark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | the centre stick | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | extend | participle | the centre stick not said here | over the ends of the bark | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over end=Path | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | djak not said here | stick | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | open | gerund | djak not said here | inwards property | vn 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.
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