Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 86
The stars form the rim of the hole through which she lowered the two girls.
Who acts: stars, woman · What happens: form, lower · To what, where: rim, two girls, hole
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 (stars, woman), 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 | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 form | nsubj |
| 3 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rim | det |
| 5 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rim | nmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lowered | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lowered | nsubj |
| 12 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hole | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 girls | nummod |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lowered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the stars | the rim of the hole | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lower | past | woman | the two girls | the hole | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme through which=Destination |
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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