Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 72
A little narrative of a meeting with these creatures is told by some Timagami Indians who had been to Lake Timiskaming.
Who acts: Timagami Indians · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: little narrative, Timagami Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Timagami Indians), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 narrative | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 narrative | amod |
| 3 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 meeting | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meeting | det |
| 6 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 narrative | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 creatures | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 creatures | det |
| 9 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 meeting | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 Indians | det |
| 14 | Timagami | Timagami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Indians | compound |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 told | iobj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Lake | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Lake | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 Lake | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Lake | case |
| 20 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Indians | nmod |
| 21 | Timiskaming | Timiskaming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lake | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | a little narrative of a meeting with this creatures | some Timagami Indians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient indian=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | some Timagami Indians | to Lake | tree rules |
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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