Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 28
The first morning he lifted the edge of the dish, looked under, and there he saw Nenebuc, the child of the sun, sitting.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: lift, look under, see, sit · To what, where: edge, Nenebuc
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 (cloud), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dish | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dish | det |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lifted | conj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 saw | expl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | parataxis |
| 19 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 child | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Nenebuc | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sun | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun | det |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 child | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sitting | punct |
| 27 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | cloud | the edge of the dish | morning | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | |||
| 2 | look under | participle | cloud not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | cloud | Nenebuc | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nenebuc=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sit | gerund | cloud not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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