Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 145
And he felt her blanket and found what he thought was her figure beneath the rabbitskin.
Who acts: two · What happens: feel, find, think, be · To what, where: blanket, figure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 felt | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 figure | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 figure | cop |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 figure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | ccomp |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 rabbitskin | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rabbitskin | det |
| 16 | rabbitskin | rabbitskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 figure | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | two | danger's blanket | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | two not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | two | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | danger's figure | beneath the rabbitskin; what nsubj; danger nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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