Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 12
s and z, surd and sonant dorsal sibilant pronounced with tip of tongue deflected to lower alveolar (applies only to Timiskaming Algonquin; in Timagami Ojibwa s and z are normal).
Who acts: lower alveolar · What happens: pronounce, deflect, apply, be · To what, where: sonant dorsal sibilant, tongue, Timiskaming, Timagami
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 (lower alveolar), 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 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surd | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 z | cc |
| 3 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 s | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 surd | punct |
| 5 | surd | surd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sibilant | cc |
| 7 | sonant | sonant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sibilant | amod |
| 8 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sibilant | amod |
| 9 | sibilant | sibilant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surd | conj |
| 10 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sibilant | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tip | case |
| 12 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pronounced | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tongue | case |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tip | nmod |
| 15 | deflected | deflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tongue | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 alveolar | case |
| 17 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 alveolar | amod |
| 18 | alveolar | alveolar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deflected | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 applies | punct |
| 20 | applies | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 alveolar | acl:relcl |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 Timiskaming | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Timiskaming | case |
| 23 | Timiskaming | Timiskaming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 applies | obj |
| 24 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Timiskaming | flat |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 normal | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Timagami | case |
| 27 | Timagami | Timagami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 normal | obl |
| 28 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Timagami | flat |
| 29 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 28 Ojibwa | case |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 z | cc |
| 31 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Timagami | conj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 normal | cop |
| 33 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surd | parataxis |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 normal | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | participle | sonant dorsal sibilant not said here | with tip of tongue | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with tip=Manner | ||||
| 2 | deflect | participle | tongue not said here | to lower alveolar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | apply | present | lower alveolar not said here | Timiskaming | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timiskaming=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Timagami and z | normal property | 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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