Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 19
“The queen of the Lions has been shot by Nenebuc and I am going to cure her.”
Who acts: Nenebuc, woman · What happens: shoot, go, cure · To what, where: queen, woman
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 (Nenebuc, woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shot | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Lions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lions | det |
| 6 | Lions | Lion | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 queen | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shot | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 shot | aux:pass |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Nenebuc | case |
| 11 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 shot | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cure | mark |
| 17 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cure | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Nenebuc | the queen of the Lions | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | woman | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source |
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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