Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 59
Another idea is that a “left-handed person is clever, because he fools people by the way he does things.”
Who acts: idea, person · What happens: hand, be, fool, do · To what, where: people, things
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 (idea, person), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clever | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 clever | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 handed | punct |
| 7 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 handed | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 9 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clever | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clever | cop |
| 12 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fools | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 fools | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fools | nsubj |
| 16 | fools | fool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clever | parataxis |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fools | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fools | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 does | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 does | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 clever | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in a quote | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | another idea | a handed person nsubj; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fool in a quote | present | person | people | by the way | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | person | things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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