Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 12
Northern Lights: Wase′tibik·an, “light of night.”
What happens: light · To what, where: Northern Lights, night
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. 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 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lights | amod |
| 2 | Lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wase | punct |
| 4 | Wase | wase | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 2 Lights | appos |
| 5 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 6 tibik | punct |
| 6 | tibik | tibik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wase | conj |
| 7 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wase | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wase | flat |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lights | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | light in a quote | night | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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