Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 28
To kill blue-bottle flies will bring rain.
What happens: kill, bring · To what, where: bottle flies, rain
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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 kill | mark |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bring | advcl |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bottle | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 5 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | compound |
| 6 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | to-infinitive | bottle flies | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | future | rain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
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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