Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 15
This is the Milky Way, which is believed to be the guide to the birds in their spring and autumn migrations.
Who acts: This, birds · What happens: be, believe, migrate · To what, where: Milky Way, guide
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: who acts (This, birds), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Way | det |
| 4 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Way | amod |
| 5 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 believed | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believed | aux:pass |
| 9 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Way | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 guide | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 guide | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guide | det |
| 13 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believed | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 birds | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 believed | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 migrations | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 migrations | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 migrations | compound |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 autumn | cc |
| 21 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spring | conj |
| 22 | migrations | migration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 birds | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the Milky Way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · passive | the Milky Way | to the birds in birds's spring migrations | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the guide | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | migrate | birds = bird | nom migration «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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