Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 3
I present them without any comparisons with other mythologies at this time, as we may expect before long to have more northern Algonkian mythology available for study and analysis.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: present, expect, have · To what, where: myths, more
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 (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 present | nsubj |
| 2 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 present | obj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 comparisons | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 comparisons | det |
| 6 | comparisons | comparison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 present | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mythologies | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mythologies | amod |
| 9 | mythologies | mythology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 comparisons | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 present | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 expect | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 expect | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 expect | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 expect | aux |
| 17 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 present | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 expect | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 expect | xcomp |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mythology | amod |
| 24 | Algonkian | Algonkian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mythology | compound |
| 25 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | obl |
| 26 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mythology | amod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 study | case |
| 28 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 available | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 analysis | cc |
| 30 | analysis | analysis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 study | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | I | myths = myth | time | without any comparisons with other mythologies | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | expect | may | we | long property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | more northern Algonkian mythology | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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