Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 36
[3] Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mythology, sharing the trickster exploits of Wiske·djak.
Who acts: 3 Ciŋgəbis · What happens: be, know, share · To what, where: grebe, trickster exploits
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 (3 Ciŋgəbis), 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 | _ | 7 grebe | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Ciŋgəbis | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grebe | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grebe | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grebe | det |
| 7 | grebe | grebe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 character | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 character | det |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 known | advmod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 character | amod |
| 12 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grebe | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mythology | case |
| 14 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mythology | compound |
| 15 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 character | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sharing | punct |
| 17 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 grebe | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 exploits | det |
| 19 | trickster | trickster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exploits | compound |
| 20 | exploits | exploit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sharing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 djak | case |
| 22 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 djak | nmod:poss |
| 23 | · | · | PART | _ | 22 Wiske | case |
| 24 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exploits | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grebe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 3 Ciŋgəbis | the grebe | a known character in Ojibwa mythology appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | share | gerund | 3 Ciŋgəbis not said here | the trickster exploits of Wiske's djak | 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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