Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 5
He then proceeds to communicate some folk-lore material which he had himself collected from Timagami Indians.
Who acts: work, lore material · What happens: proceed, communicate, have, collect · To what, where: lore material
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on 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 (work, lore material), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 proceeds | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 proceeds | advmod |
| 3 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 communicate | mark |
| 5 | communicate | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proceeds | xcomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 material | det |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 material | compound |
| 10 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 communicate | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 material | acl:relcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Indians | case |
| 17 | Timagami | Timagami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Indians | compound |
| 18 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 collected | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | present | work | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | communicate | to-infinitive | work not said here | some lore material | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | work | some lore material | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | collect | participle | some lore material not said here | Timagami Indians obl:agent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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