Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 10
It will be a long time before I will see you again, so I want to get up a dance for you all.
Who acts: stick, I · What happens: be, see, want, get up · To what, where: long time, you, dance
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 want | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 get | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dance | det |
| 21 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | stick | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | future | I | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a dance | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dance=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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