Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 40
It was not small because it was young, but they could see it was an old one, but much undersized.
Who acts: beaver, spirits · What happens: not be, be, see · To what, where: old one · 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 (beaver, spirits), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 young | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 young | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 young | cop |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 small | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 undersized | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 undersized | cc |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 undersized | advmod |
| 22 | undersized | undersized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | beaver | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | beaver | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | could | spirits = spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | beaver | a old one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | beaver not said here | tree rules |
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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