Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 40
On the eastern shore of this lake is a great rock where a Manitu is believed to live.
What happens: be, believe, live · To what, where: great rock, eastern shore, Manitu
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 shore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 3 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shore | amod |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shore | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rock | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rock | amod |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 believed | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Manitu | det |
| 14 | Manitu | Manitu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believed | aux:pass |
| 16 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rock | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 believed | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a great rock | the eastern shore of this lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · passive | a Manitu | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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