Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 185
They recognized Wiske·djak by his antics and thought he was trying to play some trick on them, so they laughed about it and quietly paddled up close to him.
Who acts: Indians, name · What happens: recognize, think, try, play, laugh, paddle up · To what, where: Wiske, trick · 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 (Indians, name), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognized | nsubj |
| 2 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recognized | obj |
| 4 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 5 djak | punct |
| 5 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Wiske | appos |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 antics | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 antics | nmod:poss |
| 8 | antics | antic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recognized | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 recognized | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trying | aux |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 play | mark |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 trick | det |
| 17 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 play | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughed | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 laughed | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laughed | nsubj |
| 23 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 recognized | parataxis |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laughed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 paddled | cc |
| 27 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 28 paddled | advmod |
| 28 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 laughed | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 paddled | compound:prt |
| 30 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 paddled | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 close | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | Indians = indian | Wiske | by name's antics | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Indians = indian not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past · progressive | name | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | name not said here | some trick | on Indians = indian | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | |||
| 5 | laugh | past | Indians = indian | about trick | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | paddle up | participle | Indians = indian not said here | close, quietly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | antic | name | nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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