Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 43
Wiske·djak watched him a while and thought how nice it would be to kill him.
Who acts: Wiske djak · What happens: watch, think, be, kill · To what, where: Beaver, 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 | _ | 1 Wiske | punct |
| 3 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 nice | advmod |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nice | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 nice | aux |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 would | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 be | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Wiske djak | Beaver | while | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Wiske djak not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | djak | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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