Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 34
If it is true and the victim is accused of it, he will stop hiccoughing from fright.
Who acts: victim, stir · What happens: be, accuse, stop, hiccough · To what, where: victim, fright
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 (victim, stir), 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 | _ | 4 true | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stop | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 accused | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 victim | det |
| 7 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accused | aux:pass |
| 9 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 accused | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | hiccoughing | hiccough | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stop | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 fright | case |
| 18 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hiccoughing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | victim | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accuse | present · passive | the victim | of sign | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of it=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | stop | future | stir | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hiccough | gerund | stir not said here | fright | 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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