Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 17
The beaver’s cabin in the first story is a high round-topped mountain near the lake.
Who acts: cabin · What happens: top, be · To what, where: high topped mountain, lake
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 (cabin), 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 beaver | det |
| 2 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 beaver | case |
| 4 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mountain | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cabin | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mountain | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mountain | amod |
| 12 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 topped | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 round | punct |
| 14 | topped | top | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mountain | amod |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mountain | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | top | participle | round compound | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the beaver's cabin in the first story | a high topped mountain | the lake | 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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