Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 82
Seven poles are necessary to build this lodge.
Who acts: Seven poles · What happens: be, build · To what, where: lodge
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 (Seven poles), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 poles | nummod |
| 2 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 necessary | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 necessary | cop |
| 4 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 build | mark |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 necessary | csubj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lodge | det |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Seven poles | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | this lodge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lodge=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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