Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 14
Soon the water began to go, and Wiske·djak lingered about, waiting for it to get low enough to get at the beaver.
Who acts: water · What happens: begin, go, linger, wait, get · To what, where: Wiske djak
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 (water), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 djak | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 djak | cc |
| 9 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 djak | compound |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 11 djak | punct |
| 11 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 12 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 djak | acl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 lingered | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 began | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waiting | advcl |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 low | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 low | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 beaver | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beaver | det |
| 26 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the water | Wiske djak | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the water not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | linger | participle | Wiske djak not said here | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the water not said here | for water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the water not said here | low property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | the water not said here | at the beaver | 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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