Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 82
They dug up all the fowl with the paddles and twisted the legs off them.
Who acts: men · What happens: dig up, twist · To what, where: fowl, legs
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 (men), 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 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dug | compound:prt |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fowl | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fowl | det |
| 6 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dug | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 paddles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paddles | det |
| 9 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dug | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twisted | cc |
| 11 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dug | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legs | det |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twisted | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 twisted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | men = man | all fowl | with the paddles | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme with paddle=Instrument | |||
| 2 | twist | past | men = man not said here | the legs | off men = man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leg=Theme off they=Trajectory |
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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