Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 26
The toad’s (omα′k·αki) song in the daytime has the same portent.
Who acts: k αki song · What happens: have · To what, where: same portent
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 (k αki song), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toad | det |
| 2 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 k | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 toad | case |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 omα | punct |
| 5 | omα | omα | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 k | nsubj |
| 6 | ′ | ′ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 omα | flat |
| 7 | k | thousand | NUM | Abbr=Yes NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 song | nummod |
| 8 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 9 αki | punct |
| 9 | αki | αki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | compound |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 αki | punct |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 daytime | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daytime | det |
| 14 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 portent | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 portent | amod |
| 18 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | k αki song in the daytime | the same portent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portent=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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