Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 20
The seething noise which is sometimes heard when the aurora is visible is attributed to the grinding of the rocks and gravel along the shore of the sea driven by the action of water and wind in the north.
Who acts: aurora, water · What happens: hear, be, attribute, drive, act · To what, where: seething noise, sea
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 (aurora, water), 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 noise | det |
| 2 | seething | seething | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noise | compound |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attributed | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 noise | acl:relcl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 visible | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 aurora | det |
| 10 | aurora | aurora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visible | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 visible | cop |
| 12 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heard | advcl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 attributed | aux:pass |
| 14 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 grinding | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grinding | det |
| 17 | grinding | grinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attributed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rocks | det |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grinding | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gravel | cc |
| 22 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rocks | conj |
| 23 | along | along | ADP | _ | 25 shore | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attributed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shore | nmod |
| 29 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sea | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 action | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 action | det |
| 32 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 driven | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 action | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wind | cc |
| 36 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 action | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 north | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 north | det |
| 39 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wind | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · passive | the seething noise | sometimes property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the aurora | visible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attribute | present · passive | the seething noise | to the grinding of the rocks and gravel; along the shore of the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive | participle | the sea not said here | by the action of water and wind in the north | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | act | water | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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