Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 21
The Indians here think that within two days after the aurora is seen they will get a heavy wind storm.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: think, see, get · To what, where: aurora, heavy wind storm · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seen | obl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 aurora | det |
| 11 | aurora | aurora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 storm | det |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 storm | amod |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 storm | compound |
| 20 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Indians | here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present · passive | the aurora | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | future | Indians = indian | a heavy wind storm | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus |
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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