Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 63
This is a personification of a human skeleton without the flesh, which wanders about the country.
Who acts: This, flesh · What happens: be, wander · To what, where: personification
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, flesh), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 personification | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 personification | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 personification | det |
| 4 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 skeleton | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skeleton | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skeleton | amod |
| 8 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 personification | nmod |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 flesh | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flesh | det |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 personification | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanders | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wanders | nsubj |
| 14 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flesh | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanders | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 personification | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a personification | of a human skeleton; without the flesh | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wander | present | the flesh | about the country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=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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