Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 95
Now, once upon a time a man captured some little birds which are called ni·bənis·e “summer (guardian) birds.”
Who acts: man · What happens: capture, call · To what, where: little birds · 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 (man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 captured | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 captured | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 once | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captured | nsubj |
| 9 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 birds | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 birds | amod |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 captured | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 birds | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 bənis | punct |
| 18 | bənis | bənis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 19 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 e | punct |
| 20 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captured | obl |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 birds | punct |
| 22 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 birds | compound |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 guardian | punct |
| 24 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 summer | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 guardian | punct |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 e | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 birds | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | a man | some little birds | now | e obl; once property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||
| 2 | call | present · passive | some little birds | bənis obl; ni xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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