Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 47
The Bear answered, “Oh! my eyes are so sore, and I can’t see where to go.
Who acts: Bear, eyes · What happens: answer, be, not see, go · 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 (Bear, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sore | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sore | punct |
| 6 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 sore | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Oh | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sore | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sore | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sore | advmod |
| 12 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 go | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the Bear | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my eyes | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | the Bear = bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the Bear = bear not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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