Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 54
(g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on a Raft; Muskrat Dives for Earth, which Nenebuc Transforms into a New World.
Who acts: g, Muskrat Dives · What happens: cause, gather, transform · To what, where: World Flood, Animals, Raft, New World
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 (g, Muskrat Dives), 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 | _ | 2 g | punct |
| 2 | g | G | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Causes | nsubj |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 g | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lynx | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Lynx | amod |
| 6 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Causes | nsubj |
| 7 | Causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Flood | det |
| 9 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Flood | compound |
| 10 | Flood | Flood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Causes | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Gathers | cc |
| 12 | Gathers | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Causes | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Animals | det |
| 14 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Gathers | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Raft | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Raft | det |
| 17 | Raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gathers | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Dives | punct |
| 19 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Dives | compound |
| 20 | Dives | Dive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Causes | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Earth | case |
| 22 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Dives | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Transforms | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 Transforms | nsubj |
| 25 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Transforms | compound |
| 26 | Transforms | transform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Dives | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 World | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 World | det |
| 29 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 World | amod |
| 30 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Transforms | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | g | the World Flood | the Giant Lynx nsubj; Muskrat Dives and Nenebuc Transforms obj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer flood=Theme dive=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | gather | present | g not said here | the Animals | a Raft | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 3 | transform | Muskrat Dives and Nenebuc Transforms | a New World | tree rules |
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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