Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 130
“Now,” thought he to himself, “if I can find a nice place on the highest of these rocks I can rest myself and let the cool breeze cool my burns.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: think, find, rest, let, burn · To what, where: Wiske, nice place, myself, cool breeze · 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 (I, my), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 highest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 highest | det |
| 20 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 place | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rocks | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 rocks | det |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 highest | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 rest | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 rest | aux |
| 26 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 rest | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 rest | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 breeze | det |
| 31 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 breeze | amod |
| 32 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 33 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 burns | amod |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 burns | nmod:poss |
| 35 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 let | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Wiske | Wiske | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | I | a nice place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | can | I | myself | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | the cool breeze | my cool burns obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Recipient burn=Theme | |||
| 5 | burn in a quote | my | nom burn «state intransitive»: poss=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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