Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 6
The trickster-transformer Wiske·djak “meat bird” is the personified Canada Jay or “Whisky Jack” (Perisoreus sp.).
Who acts: trickster transformer · What happens: personify, be · To what, where: personified Canada Jay
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 (trickster transformer), 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 | 4 transformer | det |
| 2 | trickster | trickster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transformer | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 trickster | punct |
| 4 | transformer | transformer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Jay | nsubj |
| 5 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 transformer | appos |
| 6 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 7 djak | punct |
| 7 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transformer | conj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | compound |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 djak | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Jay | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jay | det |
| 14 | personified | personify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Jay | amod |
| 15 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jay | compound |
| 16 | Jay | Jay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 Jack | cc |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jack | punct |
| 19 | Whisky | Whisky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Jack | compound |
| 20 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jay | conj |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jack | punct |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 sp | punct |
| 23 | Perisoreus | Perisoreus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sp | compound |
| 24 | sp | sp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Jay | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sp | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 sp | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | personify | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the trickster transformer and djak | the personified Canada Jay or Whisky Jack | Whisky Jack conj; Perisoreus sp appos | 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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