Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 19
They are caused by the waves splashing against the rocky shores of the northern seas (James bay), which produce a sort of reflected glow.
Who acts: waves, northern seas · What happens: cause, splash, produce, reflect, sort · To what, where: e, rocky shores, sort, reflected glow
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 (waves, northern seas), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 waves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waves | det |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | obl:agent |
| 7 | splashing | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 waves | acl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 shores | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shores | det |
| 10 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shores | amod |
| 11 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 splashing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seas | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seas | det |
| 14 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seas | amod |
| 15 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shores | nmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 bay | punct |
| 17 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bay | compound |
| 18 | bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seas | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 bay | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 produce | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 produce | nsubj |
| 22 | produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seas | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sort | det |
| 24 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 produce | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 glow | case |
| 26 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 glow | amod |
| 27 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sort | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · passive | the waves | e | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | the waves not said here | the rocky shores of the northern seas | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shore=Location | ||||
| 3 | produce | present | the northern seas | a sort of reflected glow | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Result | ||||
| 4 | reflect | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sort | reflected glow | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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