Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 33
“Kwe, kwe,” Lynx asked Rabbit, “where are you going?”
Who acts: Kwe, Rabbit · What happens: ask, go · To what, where: Rabbit · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kwe, Rabbit), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kwe | punct |
| 2 | Kwe | Kwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kwe | punct |
| 4 | kwe | kwe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kwe | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kwe | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kwe | punct |
| 7 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kwe | flat |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 going | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Kwe and kwe | Rabbit | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Rabbit | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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