Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 1
a, as in father, of medium length; a·, lengthened.
What happens: lengthen · To what, where: ·
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 father | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 length | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 8 | medium | medium | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 length | amod |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 · | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 · | det |
| 12 | · | · | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lengthened | punct |
| 14 | lengthened | lengthen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 · | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lengthen | participle | a · not said here | 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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