Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 18
So he had to make his living on rabbits, stealing them from the Indians’ snares.
Who acts: Wiske, Indians · What happens: have, make, steal, live, snare · To what, where: living, eyes, snares
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, Indians), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 living | nmod:poss |
| 7 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rabbits | case |
| 9 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stealing | punct |
| 11 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 make | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stealing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 snares | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indians | det |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 snares | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 17 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stealing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Wiske | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | Wiske's living | on rabbits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | |||
| 3 | steal | gerund | Wiske not said here | eyes = eye | the Indians's snares | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from snare=Source | |||
| 4 | live | Wiske | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | snare | the Indians | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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