Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 131
I wish my head was as small as a snake’s head, then I could get it in.”
Who acts: I, head · What happens: wish, be, get in · To what, where: snake · 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 (I, head), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snake | det |
| 10 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 snake | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 get | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 get | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | my head | as a snake's head; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in | could | I | snake | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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