Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 124
In the spring time, when the ice is breaking up in the lake, and it becomes misty, the Indians say, “The Loon is coming back from her winter sojourn in the South.”
Who acts: ice, misty Indians, Loon, coming · What happens: break up, become, say, come back, sojourn · To what, where: lake, South · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ice, misty Indians, Loon, coming), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 breaking | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ice | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaking | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 breaking | aux |
| 10 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 breaking | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 becomes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 becomes | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 becomes | nsubj |
| 18 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 breaking | parataxis |
| 19 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Indians | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 misty | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Indians | det |
| 22 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 becomes | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Loon | det |
| 27 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 coming | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 coming | aux |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 sojourn | csubj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 coming | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 winter | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 winter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sojourn | obl |
| 34 | sojourn | sojourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 say | ccomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 South | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 South | det |
| 37 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sojourn | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 breaking | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present · progressive | the ice | the lake | time | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | present | ice | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the misty Indians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come back in a quote | present · progressive | the Loon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sojourn in a quote | infinitive | coming | the South | winter | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |
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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