Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 52
A divination device is used before the hunt to foretell what kind of game is going to be killed.
Who acts: kind · What happens: use, foretell, go, kill · To what, where: divination device
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 (kind), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 device | det |
| 2 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 device | compound |
| 3 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 hunt | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hunt | det |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 foretell | mark |
| 10 | foretell | foretell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 foretell | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 going | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | a divination device | before the hunt | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | foretell | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | what kind of game | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | what kind of game not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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