Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 190
Wemicus thought that was an easy way in which to live—just to get ice for potatoes.
Who acts: Wemicus, that · What happens: think, be, live, get · To what, where: easy way, ice · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 live | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 live | conj |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 potatoes | case |
| 18 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Wemicus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | that | a easy way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | a easy way | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | ice | for potatoes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ice=Theme for potato=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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