Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 6
Pa·′gukʻ: a creature of bones, a skeleton, that clatters through the forest, making a great rattling and squeaking noise.
Who acts: that · What happens: clatter, make, squeak · To what, where: forest, great rattling, noise, ′ gukʻ
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 (that), 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 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gukʻ | nsubj |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 4 gukʻ | punct |
| 3 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gukʻ | compound |
| 4 | gukʻ | gukʻ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 creature | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gukʻ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 creature | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 skeleton | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 skeleton | det |
| 12 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creature | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clatters | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 clatters | nsubj |
| 15 | clatters | clatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 creature | parataxis |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clatters | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 making | punct |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 clatters | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rattling | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rattling | amod |
| 23 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 squeaking | cc |
| 25 | squeaking | squeak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 making | conj |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 squeaking | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gukʻ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clatter | present | that | the forest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | that not said here | a great rattling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rattling=Product | ||||
| 3 | squeak | gerund | that not said here | noise | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent noise=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.
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