Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 57
The lines sometimes also are used to denote the direction to be followed to get the animals designated.
What happens: use, denote, follow, get, designate · To what, where: lines, direction, animals
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lines | det |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 used | advmod |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 denote | mark |
| 8 | denote | denote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 denote | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 followed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 followed | aux:pass |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 direction | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 followed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animals | det |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 animals | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the lines | sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | denote | to-infinitive | the direction | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot direction=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive · passive | the direction not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the animals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | designate | participle | the animals not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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