Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 20
The big river referred to is Ottawa river, Ki′tcisi·′bi “big river,” down which Wiske·djak’s course seems to have been.
Who acts: big river, course · What happens: refer, be, seem · To what, where: big river, Ottawa river
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 (big river, course), 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 river | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 river | amod |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | nsubj |
| 4 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 river | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 referred | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 river | cop |
| 7 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 river | compound |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ki | punct |
| 10 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 river | appos |
| 11 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 12 tcisi | punct |
| 12 | tcisi | tcisi | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Ki | dep |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 15 bi | punct |
| 14 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bi | compound |
| 15 | bi | bi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | conj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 river | punct |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 river | amod |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bi | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 river | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 river | punct |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seems | obl |
| 23 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 djak | compound |
| 24 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wiske | punct |
| 25 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 course | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 djak | case |
| 27 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seems | nsubj |
| 28 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bi | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 been | mark |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 been | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 seems | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 river | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle | the big river not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the big river | Ottawa river and ′ bi | Ki appos; ′ bi conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | present | Wiske djak's course | down ′ bi | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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