Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 12
Wiske·djak wanted to get this great beaver, but did not know how to get at him.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: want, get, not know · To what, where: great beaver · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wiske), 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 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 beaver | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beaver | amod |
| 9 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 get | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Wiske | djak nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | this great beaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beaver=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Wiske not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | at djak | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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