Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 191
A wide space, however, surrounded the tree, separating it from the edge of the sky.
Who acts: wide space · What happens: surround, separate · To what, where: tree, space, wide space
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 (wide space), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 space | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 space | amod |
| 3 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surrounded | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 surrounded | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surrounded | punct |
| 7 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 space | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surrounded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 separating | punct |
| 11 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 surrounded | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 separating | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 edge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 separating | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 space | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | a wide space not said here | the tree | however property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | separate | gerund | a wide space not said here | space | from the edge of the sky | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from edge=Co-Patient |
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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