Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 51
But far out in the middle of the lake the “Hell-diver” came swimming to the surface and called aloud.
Who acts: Hell diver · What happens: come, swim, call · To what, where: lake, surface, middle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hell diver), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 middle | cc |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 out | advmod |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 middle | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 diver | det |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 diver | punct |
| 12 | Hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diver | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hell | punct |
| 14 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 diver | punct |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 came | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 surface | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 surface | det |
| 20 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swimming | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 surface | acl |
| 23 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Hell diver | the lake not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | the Hell diver not said here | the surface | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to surface=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the surface not said here | aloud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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