Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 65
[21] Abi·ndəsa′gan “something to sit or lie on the water with.”
What happens: sit, lie · To what, where: water, 21
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: 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 21 | punct |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 4 | Abi | Abi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 8 gan | punct |
| 6 | ndəsa | ndəsa | X | _ | 8 gan | compound |
| 7 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 6 ndəsa | punct |
| 8 | gan | gan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 21 | conj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 gan | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sit | mark |
| 12 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 lie | cc |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 lie | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | infinitive | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on water=Location |
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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