Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 65
“Ki·niŋgwa‵zəm, you are a liar.”
Who acts: niŋgwa zəm · What happens: be · To what, where: liar
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 (niŋgwa zəm), 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 | _ | 6 zəm | punct |
| 2 | Ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 niŋgwa | compound |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ki | punct |
| 4 | niŋgwa | niŋgwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zəm | compound |
| 5 | ‵ | ‵ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 niŋgwa | flat |
| 6 | zəm | zəm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 liar | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 zəm | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 liar | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 liar | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 liar | det |
| 11 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 liar | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 liar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | niŋgwa zəm | a liar | you nsubj | tree rules |
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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