Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 11
And a little way off shore was a little island with many grasses; just as the beaver provides a winter supply of greens for himself near his lodge, so this island he supposed to be the beaver’s winter supply and the mountain his lodge.
Who acts: little way, beaver, island · What happens: be, provide, suppose · To what, where: little island, winter supply, lodge
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little way, beaver, island), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 island | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 island | nsubj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 island | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 island | amod |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 grasses | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grasses | amod |
| 13 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 island | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 provides | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 provides | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 provides | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beaver | det |
| 18 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 provides | nsubj |
| 19 | provides | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 island | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 supply | det |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supply | compound |
| 22 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 provides | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 greens | case |
| 24 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 supply | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 himself | case |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 greens | nmod |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 lodge | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 greens | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 supposed | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 supposed | advmod |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 island | det |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 supposed | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 supposed | nsubj |
| 35 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 provides | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 supply | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 supply | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beaver | det |
| 39 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 supply | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 beaver | case |
| 41 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 supply | compound |
| 42 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 supposed | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 mountain | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mountain | det |
| 45 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 supply | conj |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 supposed | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a little way off shore | a little island | with many grasses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | provide | present | the beaver | a winter supply of greens for Beaver near Beaver's lodge | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition supply=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suppose | past | this island | Beaver's lodge | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lodge=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | this island not said here | the beaver's winter supply and the mountain | the beaver nmod:poss; the mountain 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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