Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 52
“It was I who killed our king, the Loon.”
Who acts: middle, people · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: people, king
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 (middle, people), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 I | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 king | nmod:poss |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Loon | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Loon | det |
| 11 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | middle | the people = people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | the people = people | our king | who nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
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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