Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 7
When this is heard, it is understood as an omen that some friend will be lost.
Who acts: omen · What happens: hear, understand, lose · To what, where: this, noise, friend
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 (omen), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 understood | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 understood | aux:pass |
| 8 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 omen | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 omen | det |
| 11 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understood | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lost | mark |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 omen | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · passive | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | understand | present · passive | noise | as a omen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as omen=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lose | future · passive | a omen not said here | some friend | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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