Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 182
Soon he heard a spirit nearby which murmured to him, “Close your eyes and look through the tree.
Who acts: tree, spirit · What happens: hear, murmur, close, look · To what, where: spirit, tree, eyes · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, spirit), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spirit | det |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 5 spirit | advmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 murmured | nsubj |
| 8 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 murmured | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Close | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Close | punct |
| 13 | Close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Close | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | tree | a spirit | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | a spirit | tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | close in a quote | infinitive | tree not said here | your eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present | tree not said here | through the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through tree=Theme |
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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