Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 114
Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc [15] (Tom-tit) cried out, “Nenebuc scabies suas edit!”
Who acts: little bird, scabies suas · What happens: cry out, edit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird, scabies suas), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | Gitci | Gitci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | appos |
| 6 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 8 gi | punct |
| 7 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gi | compound |
| 8 | gi | GI | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 11 tci | punct |
| 10 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tci | compound |
| 11 | tci | tci | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gi | conj |
| 12 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 15 cįc | punct |
| 13 | gane | gane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cįc | compound |
| 14 | ‵ | ‵ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 gane | flat |
| 15 | cįc | cįc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tci | conj |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 15 | punct |
| 17 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cįc | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 15 | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 tit | punct |
| 20 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tit | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tom | punct |
| 22 | tit | tit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tci | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 tit | punct |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 cried | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 edit | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 edit | punct |
| 28 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 scabies | compound |
| 29 | scabies | scaby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 suas | compound |
| 30 | suas | sua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 edit | nsubj |
| 31 | edit | edit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cried | parataxis |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 edit | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 edit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the little bird | then | ′ gi and ‵ tci and gane cįc nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | edit in a quote | present | scabies suas | tree rules |
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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