Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 18
The Northern Lights are called wa′t·e “illumination” (reduplicated wawa′t·e is “lightning” from thunder).
Who acts: e · What happens: call, reduplicate, be · To what, where: Northern Lights, lightning, thunder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (e), 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 | 3 Lights | det |
| 2 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lights | amod |
| 3 | Lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | wa | WA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 t | compound |
| 7 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 t | compound |
| 8 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 10 e | punct |
| 10 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 illumination | punct |
| 12 | illumination | illumination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 e | conj |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 illumination | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 wawa | punct |
| 15 | reduplicated | reduplicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wawa | amod |
| 16 | wawa | wawa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 illumination | conj |
| 17 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 18 t | punct |
| 18 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wawa | conj |
| 19 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 e | punct |
| 20 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lightning | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lightning | cop |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 lightning | punct |
| 23 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 e | conj |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 lightning | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 thunder | case |
| 26 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lightning | nmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 lightning | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the Northern Lights | wa ′ t xcomp; e and illumination and reduplicated wawa and t and lightning xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reduplicate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | e | lightning | thunder | 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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