Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 59
[17] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south of Smoothwater lake (see map above referred to).
Who acts: big snake, Smoothwater lake, map · What happens: become, see, refer, port · To what, where: 17, map, Smoothwater lake
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 (big snake, Smoothwater lake, map), 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 | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 2 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 became | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 snake | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ridge | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ridge | amod |
| 10 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ridge | amod |
| 11 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 portage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 portage | det |
| 14 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ridge | nmod |
| 15 | south | south | ADV | _ | 18 lake | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | Smoothwater | Smoothwater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lake | compound |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 portage | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lake | acl |
| 21 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 referred | mark |
| 23 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 see | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 referred | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this big snake | 17 | a high rocky ridge on the portage of Smoothwater lake xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Smoothwater lake not said here | map | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refer | participle | map not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | port | Smoothwater lake | nom portage «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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