Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 192
Wiske·djak all the time struggled ahead in great fear, expecting any moment to be killed.
Who acts: Wiske djak · What happens: struggle, expect, kill · To what, where: time, great fear, 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 (Wiske djak), 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 | 3 djak | compound |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 3 djak | punct |
| 3 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 djak | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 7 struggled | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | amod |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expecting | punct |
| 13 | expecting | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 djak | acl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expecting | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 killed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 moment | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 djak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | participle | all time not said here | great fear | ahead property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | expect | gerund | Wiske djak all time not said here | moment | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | Wiske djak all time not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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