Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 45
The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush when other foods fail.
Who acts: rock weed, other foods · What happens: kwund, eat, fail · To what, where: ′ kwund, bush
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 (rock weed, other foods), 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 | 4 weed | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 weed | punct |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weed | compound |
| 4 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kwund | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 weed | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 weed | punct |
| 7 | wa | wa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ′ | compound |
| 8 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kwund | compound |
| 9 | kwund | kwund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 tripe | punct |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tripe | compound |
| 12 | tripe | tripe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kwund | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 tripe | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 eaten | advmod |
| 16 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bush | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bush | det |
| 19 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eaten | obl |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 fail | mark |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 foods | amod |
| 22 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fail | nsubj |
| 23 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eaten | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kwund | the rock weed | rock tripe appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | present · passive | ′ kwund | the bush | often property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | fail | present | other foods | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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