Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 18
This is the rainbow, which is thought to be caused by mist generated in the air by waves of some great sea.
Who acts: This, waves · What happens: be, think, cause, generate, wave · To what, where: rainbow, mist, air, great sea
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, waves), 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 | 4 rainbow | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rainbow | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rainbow | det |
| 4 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux:pass |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rainbow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 caused | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 caused | aux:pass |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thought | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 mist | case |
| 13 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obl |
| 14 | generated | generate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mist | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 generated | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 waves | case |
| 19 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caused | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 sea | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sea | amod |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waves | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rainbow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the rainbow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · passive | the rainbow | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cause | to-infinitive · passive | waves of some great sea | by mist | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | generate | participle | mist not said here | the air | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wave | some great sea | nom wave «event 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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