Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 7
He is not in the least altruistic, though he seems to have in mind some provision for the Indians, as appears more particularly in story number 4.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: not be, seem, have, appear · To what, where: provision, mind, story number
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 (Jack), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 altruistic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 altruistic | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 altruistic | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 altruistic | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 altruistic | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 altruistic | advmod |
| 7 | altruistic | altruistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seems | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 seems | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 altruistic | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seems | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 provision | det |
| 17 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Indians | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Indians | det |
| 20 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 provision | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appears | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 appears | mark |
| 23 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seems | conj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 particularly | advmod |
| 25 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 23 appears | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 number | case |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 number | compound |
| 28 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appears | obl |
| 29 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 number | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 altruistic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Jack | altruistic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | Jack | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | some provision | mind | for the Indians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Patient | ||
| 4 | appear | present | Jack not said here | story number | particularly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location |
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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