Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 50
On Lady Evelyn lake are a number of such figures, showing animals and men in canoes.
Who acts: such figures · What happens: be, show · To what, where: number, Lady lake, animals
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: who acts (such figures), 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 lake | case |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lake | compound |
| 3 | Evelyn | Evelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lady | flat |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 number | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 number | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 figures | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 figures | amod |
| 10 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showing | punct |
| 12 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 figures | acl |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showing | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 men | cc |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 animals | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 canoes | case |
| 17 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a number | Lady lake | of such figures | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | such figures not said here | animals and men | in canoes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Patient in canoe=Topic |
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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