Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 71
These dwarf-like creatures have ugly faces and seek to hide them when they meet with people.
Who acts: like creatures, Creatures · What happens: have, seek, hide, meet · To what, where: ugly faces, Creatures
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 (like creatures, Creatures), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 creatures | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwarf | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faces | amod |
| 8 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seek | cc |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hide | mark |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seek | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hide | obj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hide | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meet | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this like creatures | ugly faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | this like creatures not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | this like creatures not said here | Creatures = creature | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | Creatures = creature | with people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with people=Co-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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