Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 44
To bring on a snowstorm an infant is allowed to make its moccasin print in the snow.
Who acts: snowstorm, infant · What happens: bring, allow, make, print · To what, where: snowstorm, infant, moccasin print, snow
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 (snowstorm, infant), 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 bring | mark |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 snowstorm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snowstorm | det |
| 5 | snowstorm | snowstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bring | obl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 infant | det |
| 7 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 snowstorm | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 print | nmod:poss |
| 13 | moccasin | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 print | compound |
| 14 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj | ||
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snow | det |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | to-infinitive | a snowstorm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snowstorm=Destination | |||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | a snowstorm not said here | a infant | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | a infant not said here | infant's moccasin print | the snow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset print=Product | |||
| 4 | infant | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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