Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 122
“Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge.
Who acts: little Partridge · What happens: frighten, answer · To what, where: ′ sįs · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Partridge), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kuckuŋge | punct |
| 2 | Kuckuŋge | Kuckuŋge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 5 sįs | punct |
| 4 | ′ | ′ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sįs | nummod |
| 5 | sįs | sį | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Kuckuŋge | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sįs | acl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kuckuŋge | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Partridge | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Partridge | amod |
| 14 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten in a quote | participle | ′ sįs not said here | suddenly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: express | past | the little Partridge | Kuckuŋge and ′ sįs nsubj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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