Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 61
The following description of the ceremony attending the eating of a bear is based on the accounts of three participants.
Who acts: ceremony, bear · What happens: follow, attend, base, describe, eat, account · To what, where: eating, following description, accounts, ceremony, three participants
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 (ceremony, bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 description | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 description | amod |
| 3 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 based | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ceremony | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ceremony | det |
| 6 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 description | nmod |
| 7 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ceremony | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eating | det |
| 9 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attending | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bear | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eating | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 based | aux:pass |
| 14 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 accounts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 accounts | det |
| 17 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 based | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 participants | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 participants | nummod |
| 20 | participants | participant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 accounts | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | attend | gerund | the ceremony not said here | the eating of a bear | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eating=Goal | ||||
| 3 | base | present · passive | the following description of the ceremony | the accounts of three participants | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on account=Source | ||||
| 4 | describe | the ceremony | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | eat | a bear | nom eating «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | account | three participants | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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