Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 15
In these myths the scene of action commences with Dumoine lake, Ki·we·′goma “Turn-back lake.”
Who acts: scene, we · What happens: commence, goma · To what, where: myths
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 (scene, we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 myths | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 myths | det |
| 3 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commences | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scene | det |
| 5 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commences | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 action | case |
| 7 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scene | nmod |
| 8 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | Dumoine | Dumoine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | compound |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commences | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ki | punct |
| 13 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | appos |
| 14 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 goma | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 goma | nsubj |
| 16 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 goma | punct |
| 17 | ′ | ′ | X | _ | 18 goma | compound |
| 18 | goma | goma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commences | obl |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 lake | punct |
| 20 | Turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 back | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Turn | punct |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lake | compound |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goma | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 commences | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 commences | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | present | the scene of action | this myths | with Dumoine lake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lake=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | goma | we | back lake conj | 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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