Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 30
If anyone finds or sees a live mole it is a sign that some member of the family will die soon.
Who acts: anyone, live mole, member · What happens: find, see, be, die · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (anyone, live mole, member), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 finds | mark |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 sees | cc |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mole | det |
| 7 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mole | amod |
| 8 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | nsubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sign | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sign | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 die | mark |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 member | det |
| 15 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 die | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 family | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 member | nmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 die | aux |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sign | acl |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 die | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | anyone | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present | anyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a live mole | a sign | mole nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die | future | some member of the family | a sign not said here | soon property | tree rules |
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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