Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 82
Whenever Wiske·djak started to eat again, the wind blew a little.
Who acts: Wiske djak, wind · What happens: start, eat, blow · To what, where: little
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, wind), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 started | advmod |
| 2 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 djak | compound |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wiske | punct |
| 4 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 blew | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 eat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blew | nsubj |
| 12 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blew | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Wiske djak | whenever property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | the wind | a little | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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