Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 46
If an infant warms its hands before the fire, it is a sure sign of cold weather coming.
Who acts: infant, hand, cold weather · What happens: warm, be, come · To what, where: hands, sure sign
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 (infant, hand, cold weather), 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 warms | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 infant | det |
| 3 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warms | nsubj |
| 4 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | advcl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 warms | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warms | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warms | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sign | amod |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 weather | case |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weather | amod |
| 18 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | nmod |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 weather | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm a condition, not said to happen | present | a infant | infant's hands | before the fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | hand | a sure sign | of cold weather | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | cold weather not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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