Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 22
Its cry is considered an omen of ill fortune or of death.
Who acts: island · What happens: consider, cry, omen · To what, where: cry, ill fortune
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 (island), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cry | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 considered | aux:pass |
| 4 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 omen | det |
| 6 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considered | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fortune | case |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fortune | amod |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 omen | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 death | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fortune | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present · passive | island's cry | a omen of ill fortune or death xcomp | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | cry | island | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | omen | ill fortune or death | nom omen «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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