Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 149
Wemicus always tried to imitate the actions of everybody he saw.
Who acts: Wemicus, everybody · What happens: try, imitate, see, act · To what, where: actions
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wemicus, everybody), 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 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 tried | advmod |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 imitate | mark |
| 5 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 actions | det |
| 7 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 imitate | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 everybody | case |
| 9 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 actions | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Wemicus | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | imitate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the actions of everybody | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wemicus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | act | everybody | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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