Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 83
This is then put on the stub end of a branch of a tree facing from some prominent point toward the river or lake, near the water’s edge.
Who acts: tree · What happens: put, face · To what, where: This, stub end, prominent point
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 (tree), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | stub | stub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | compound |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 branch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 branch | det |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 branch | nmod |
| 15 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tree | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 point | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 point | det |
| 18 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 point | amod |
| 19 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 facing | obl |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 facing | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 lake | cc |
| 24 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 river | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 edge | punct |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 edge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 edge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 water | case |
| 30 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 river | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | This | on the stub end of a branch of a tree; then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on end=Destination | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | a tree not said here | some prominent point | toward the river or lake and the water's edge | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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