Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 63
On the eastern shore is where Nenebuc fell down the rocks and made wa′kwan.
Who acts: Nenebuc · What happens: be, make · To what, where: eastern shore, wa
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 (Nenebuc), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 shore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 3 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shore | amod |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | cop |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 fell | advmod |
| 7 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 14 | wa | wa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 16 kwan | punct |
| 16 | kwan | kwan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wa | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nenebuc | the eastern shore | down the rocks; fall property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | Nenebuc not said here | wa and kwan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wa=Product |
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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