Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 103
As the story mentions, when the float sticks are together it is a sign that a fish is on the hook.
Who acts: float sticks, fish · What happens: be · To what, where: sign, hook
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: who acts (float sticks, fish), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 mentions | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mentions | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mentions | compound |
| 4 | mentions | mention | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sign | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sticks | det |
| 8 | float | float | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sticks | compound |
| 9 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | cop |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 sign | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mentions | appos |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 hook | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hook | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hook | cop |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 hook | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hook | det |
| 22 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mentions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the float sticks | a sign | stick nsubj; together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a fish | a sign not said here | the hook | tree rules |
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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