Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 52
One summer Nenebuc was unable to get fish for the whole summer on account of the high winds.
Who acts: One summer · What happens: be, get, account · To what, where: fish, account, high winds
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 (One summer), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 summer | nummod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 summer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 summer | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 summer | amod |
| 12 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 account | case |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 winds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 winds | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 winds | amod |
| 18 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 account | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One summer | Nenebuc nsubj; unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | One summer not said here | fish | account of the high winds | summer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme on account=Source | ||
| 3 | account | the high winds | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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