Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 60
When this falls, it denotes the direction to be taken to secure game).
Who acts: this, stick · What happens: fall, denote, take, secure · To what, where: direction, game
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 (this, stick), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 falls | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 denotes | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 denotes | nsubj |
| 6 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 direction | det |
| 8 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 denotes | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 taken | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 direction | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 secure | mark |
| 13 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | xcomp |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 secure | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 game | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 denotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | this | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | denote | present | stick | the direction | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot direction=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | stick not said here | the direction not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: clause=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | secure | to-infinitive | stick not said here | game | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition game=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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