Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 96
The small star Alcor in this constellation is the wound.
Who acts: small star · What happens: be · To what, where: wound
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 (small star), 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 | 3 star | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wound | nsubj |
| 4 | Alcor | Alcor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 star | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 constellation | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 constellation | det |
| 7 | constellation | constellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wound | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wound | det |
| 10 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the small star in this constellation | the wound | tree rules |
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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