Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 38
[4] Formal way of ending a narration; the narrator is assumed to have been a spectator.
Who acts: Formal way · What happens: end, assume, be · To what, where: narration, narrator, spectator, Formal way
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 (Formal way), 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 | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Formal | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 4 | punct |
| 4 | Formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 ending | mark |
| 7 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 narration | det |
| 9 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ending | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 assumed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 narrator | det |
| 12 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 assumed | aux:pass |
| 14 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 way | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 spectator | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spectator | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 spectator | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spectator | det |
| 19 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | gerund | Formal way not said here | a narration | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality narration=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | assume | present · passive | Formal way not said here | the narrator | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | Formal way not said here | a spectator | 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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