Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 6
The seeker for information may place this bone on top of his head and let it drop to the ground.
Who acts: bone, seeker · What happens: let, drop · To what, where: seeker, ground, place
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 (bone, seeker), 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 seeker | det |
| 2 | seeker | seeker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 information | case |
| 4 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeker | nmod |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | aux |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 bone | det |
| 8 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bone | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drop | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | this bone on top of bone's head | seeker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop | infinitive | seeker not said here | the ground | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory |
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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