Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 59
“Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit.
Who acts: people, Wayaʻkabi · What happens: sit, answer · To what, where: fire, Rabbit
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 (people, Wayaʻkabi), 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 Wayaʻkabi | punct |
| 2 | Wayaʻkabi | Wayaʻkabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 5 te | punct |
| 4 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 te | compound |
| 5 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wayaʻkabi | appos |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 te | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 te | appos |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wayaʻkabi | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | people not said here | a fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Wayaʻkabi | Rabbit | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |
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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