Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 7

The skin was very much worn by now and had lost lots of feathers and was ragged, but still preserved the power to fly.

What happens: wear, lose, be, preserve, fly · To what, where: skin, lots, power

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worn	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 worn	advmod
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 now	case
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 worn	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 worn	conj
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lost	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lots	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ragged	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ragged	cop
17	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lost	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 preserved	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 preserved	cc
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 preserved	advmod
21	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 power	det
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 preserved	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fly	mark
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 preserved	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past · passive	the skin			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	lose	past · perfect	lots of feathers			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality
3	is	past			ragged property	tree rules
4	preserve	past	the power	still		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Beneficiary
5	fly	to-infinitive				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 7