Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 39
Obabika lake is called Ma′nitu Pi·pa′gi·, “Spirit Echo.”
What happens: call · To what, where: Obabika lake · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Obabika | Obabika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lake | compound |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Ma | Ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nitu | compound |
| 6 | ′ | ′ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ma | flat |
| 7 | nitu | nitu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 8 | Pi | Pi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nitu | appos |
| 9 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 12 gi | punct |
| 10 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gi | compound |
| 11 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gi | compound |
| 12 | gi | GI | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 12 gi | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Spirit | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Spirit | punct |
| 16 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gi | appos |
| 17 | Echo | Echo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Spirit | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Spirit | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | Obabika lake | Ma nitu xcomp; pa ′ gi 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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