Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 36
One time he was going along the shore of a big lake carrying a big pail.
Who acts: djak, big lake · What happens: go, carry · To what, where: shore, big pail
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 (djak, big lake), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lake | amod |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shore | nmod |
| 13 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lake | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pail | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pail | amod |
| 16 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carrying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | djak | the shore of a big lake | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along shore=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a big lake not said here | a big pail | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme |
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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