Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 22
They also state that wild geese require a day and a night to reach Lake Timiskaming from James bay when they migrate, thus showing the speed of the wind by comparison.
Who acts: Indians, wild geese · What happens: state, require, reach, migrate, show · To what, where: Lake, James bay, speed · 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, wild geese), 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 state | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 state | advmod |
| 3 | state | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 require | mark |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 geese | amod |
| 6 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 require | nsubj |
| 7 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 state | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 require | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 night | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reach | mark |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 require | advcl |
| 15 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 16 | Timiskaming | Timiskaming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lake | flat |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bay | case |
| 18 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bay | compound |
| 19 | bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lake | nmod |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 migrate | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 migrate | nsubj |
| 22 | migrate | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showing | punct |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 25 showing | advmod |
| 25 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 state | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 speed | det |
| 27 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wind | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wind | det |
| 30 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 speed | nmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 comparison | case |
| 32 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | Indians = indian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | require | present | wild geese | day | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | wild geese not said here | Lake | James bay | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lake=Theme from bay=Source | |||
| 4 | migrate | present | Indians = indian | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | show | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | the speed of the wind | by comparison; thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent speed=Recipient |
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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