Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 9
“One Indian told me a few incidents about Whisky Jack (Anglicised form of native Wiske·djak) and ended by saying that he had seen the outline of that strange personage imprinted on a rock along the Ottawa river.
Who acts: Bark · What happens: tell, anglicise, end, say, see, imprint · To what, where: few incidents, me, outline, strange personage, rock, native Wiske · 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 (Bark), 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 | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Indian | nummod |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | ccomp |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 incidents | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 incidents | amod |
| 8 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Jack | case |
| 10 | Whisky | Whisky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jack | compound |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 incidents | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 form | punct |
| 13 | Anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jack | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Wiske | case |
| 16 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Wiske | amod |
| 17 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 18 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 19 djak | punct |
| 19 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Wiske | conj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 form | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ended | cc |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 saying | mark |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 ended | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 saying | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 outline | det |
| 30 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 personage | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 personage | det |
| 33 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 personage | amod |
| 34 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 outline | nmod |
| 35 | imprinted | imprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 personage | acl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 rock | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rock | det |
| 38 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 imprinted | obl |
| 39 | along | along | ADP | _ | 42 river | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 river | det |
| 41 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 river | compound |
| 42 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 imprinted | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | a few incidents | me | about Whisky Jack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient incident=Topic | |||
| 2 | anglicise in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | end in a quote | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past · perfect | Bark | the outline of that strange personage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outline=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | imprint in a quote | participle | that strange personage not said here | a rock | along the Ottawa river | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination | |||
| 7 | form in a quote | native Wiske and djak | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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