Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 90
He went all around pulling the fowls’ legs out of the sand and eating them.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: go, pull, eat · To what, where: legs, sand
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 (Wiske), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 around | advmod |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fowls | det |
| 7 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 fowls | case |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulling | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eating | cc |
| 15 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pulling | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eating | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Wiske | around property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | Wiske not said here | the fowls's legs | the sand | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent leg=Theme out sand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | Wiske not said here | legs = leg | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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