Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 124
The story given by Mr. Fergusson is evidently a close variant of the second part of No. 5 of Dr. Speck’s Timagami series.
Who acts: story · What happens: give, be · To what, where: story, close variant
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 (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 variant | nsubj |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Fergusson | case |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergusson | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Fergusson | Fergusson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 variant | cop |
| 8 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 11 variant | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 variant | det |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 variant | amod |
| 11 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 variant | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 5 | case |
| 17 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 18 5 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 series | case |
| 20 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Speck | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Speck | Speck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 series | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Speck | case |
| 23 | Timagami | Timagami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 series | compound |
| 24 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 5 | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 variant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the story not said here | by Fergusson Mr. | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the story | a close variant | of the second part of 5 No. of Speck Dr.'s Timagami series; evidently 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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