Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 28
Less frequently the Milky Way is called dji·ba′imi·k·αnʻ “spirit path” over which the spirits of the dead are thought to journey.
Who acts: αnʻ · What happens: call, path, think · To what, where: Milky Way, spirits, spirit path · 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 (αnʻ), 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 | Less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 frequently | advmod |
| 2 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Way | det |
| 4 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Way | amod |
| 5 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | dji | dji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 11 ′ | punct |
| 10 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ′ | compound |
| 11 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 12 | imi | imi | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 ′ | dep |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 14 k | punct |
| 14 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 15 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 19 path | punct |
| 16 | αnʻ | αnʻ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 path | nsubj |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 path | punct |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 path | compound |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 path | punct |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 thought | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spirits | det |
| 24 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dead | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dead | det |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spirits | nmod |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | aux:pass |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 path | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 journey | mark |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the Milky Way | k obl; dji xcomp; ba ′ xcomp; frequently property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | path in a quote | αnʻ | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | the spirits of the dead | spirit path | journey xcomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/10/28/