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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 13

Then Wiske·djak took out his own eyes and pulled the Lynx’s skin on over his own head, so that the bulging eyes of the Lynx fitted into his own eye sockets.

Who acts: Wiske, bulging eyes · What happens: take out, pull, bulge, fit · To what, where: own eyes, skin, own head, own eye sockets

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, bulging eyes), 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

advmodnsubjpunctapposcompound:prtnmod:possamodobjccconjdetnmod:posscaseobjcasecasenmod:possamodoblpunctmarkmarkdetamodnsubjcasedetnmodconjcasenmod:possamodcompoundoblpunctrootThenADVWiskePROPN·PUNCTdjakNOUNtookVERBoutADPhisPRONownADJeyesNOUNandCCONJpulledVERBtheDETLynxPROPN’sPARTskinNOUNonADPoverADPhisPRONownADJheadNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJtheDETbulgingVERBeyesNOUNofADPtheDETLynxPROPNfittedVERBintoADPhisPRONownADJeyeNOUNsocketsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem5 tookadvmod
2WiskeWiskePROPNNumber=Sing5 tooknsubj
3··PUNCT_4 djakpunct
4djakdjakNOUNNumber=Sing2 Wiskeappos
5tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6outoutADP_5 tookcompound:prt
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 eyesnmod:poss
8ownownADJDegree=Pos9 eyesamod
9eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur5 tookobj
10andandCCONJ_11 pulledcc
11pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 tookconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Lynxdet
13LynxLynxPROPNNumber=Sing15 skinnmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 Lynxcase
15skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing11 pulledobj
16ononADP_20 headcase
17overoverADP_20 headcase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 headnmod:poss
19ownownADJDegree=Pos20 headamod
20headheadNOUNNumber=Sing11 pulledobl
21,,PUNCT_30 fittedpunct
22sosoSCONJ_30 fittedmark
23thatthatSCONJ_30 fittedmark
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 eyesdet
25bulgingbulgeVERBVerbForm=Ger26 eyesamod
26eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur30 fittednsubj
27ofofADP_29 Lynxcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Lynxdet
29LynxLynxPROPNNumber=Sing26 eyesnmod
30fittedfitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 tookconj
31intointoADP_35 socketscase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 socketsnmod:poss
33ownownADJDegree=Pos35 socketsamod
34eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing35 socketscompound
35socketssocketNOUNNumber=Plur30 fittedobl
36..PUNCT_5 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take outpastWiskedjak's own eyesthenvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2pullpastWiske not said herethe Lynx's skindjak's own headvn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3bulgegerundvn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fitpastthe bulging eyes of the Lynxdjak's own eye socketsvn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into socket=Destination

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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