Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 11
The name Wiske·djak and its variants seem to be more or less characteristic of the Algonquin bands, in which respect they resemble the Cree.
Who acts: variants, djak · What happens: seem, be, resemble, vary · To what, where: djak, more characteristic, Cree, name
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (variants, djak), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 5 djak | punct |
| 5 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seem | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 variants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 djak | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 characteristic | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 characteristic | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 characteristic | amod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 less | cc |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 more | conj |
| 15 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bands | det |
| 18 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bands | compound |
| 19 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 characteristic | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 respect | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 respect | case |
| 22 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 23 respect | det |
| 23 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 characteristic | appos |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 resemble | nsubj |
| 25 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 respect | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Cree | det |
| 27 | Cree | Cree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 resemble | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | djak's variants | djak not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme djak=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | djak's variants not said here | more characteristic | of the Algonquin bands; which respect appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | resemble | present | variants = variant | the Cree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | vary | djak | nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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