Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 12
Wiske·djak was very eager to get pretty eyes like the Lynx’s, so he made a fire and roasted the poor Lynx to get its skin off.
Who acts: Wiske djak, djak · What happens: be, get, make, roast, get off · To what, where: eyes, fire, poor Lynx, skin
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske djak, 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 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 djak | compound |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wiske | punct |
| 3 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eager | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eager | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 eager | advmod |
| 6 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eager | xcomp |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Lynx | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lynx | det |
| 13 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Lynx | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 made | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eager | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roasted | cc |
| 22 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lynx | det |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Lynx | amod |
| 25 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 roasted | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 roasted | advcl |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 skin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 get | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wiske djak | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | eyes | like the Lynx; pretty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make | past | djak | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | roast | past | djak not said here | the poor Lynx | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lynx=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get off | to-infinitive | djak not said here | fire's skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus |
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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