Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 76
So he dried it, but not entirely, and that is the reason why some parts of the world are swampy and wet, while others are dry like this.
Who acts: Nenebuc, that, parts, others · What happens: dry, be · To what, where: World, reason
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, that, parts, others), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entirely | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 entirely | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 entirely | advmod |
| 8 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 3 dried | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reason | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reason | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 reason | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dried | parataxis |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 swampy | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 parts | det |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 swampy | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 swampy | cop |
| 22 | swampy | swampy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reason | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wet | cc |
| 24 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 swampy | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dry | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 dry | mark |
| 27 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dry | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dry | cop |
| 29 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 swampy | conj |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 this | case |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 dry | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | Nenebuc | World | entirely property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | some parts of the world | swampy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | some parts of the world not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | others | like this; dry property | 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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