Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 14
To help invite the birds, he sat down in front of it and got his drum and rattle and began singing a song of invitation.
Who acts: you, djak, invitation · What happens: help, invite, sit down, get, begin, sing · To what, where: birds, front, drum, song
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 (you, djak, invitation), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 help | mark |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invite | advcl |
| 3 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invite | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invite | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 drum | nmod:poss |
| 17 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rattle | cc |
| 19 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drum | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 began | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 singing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 invitation | case |
| 26 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 song | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | invite | imperative | you not said here | the birds | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | djak | front of front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | get | past | djak not said here | djak's drum and rattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | djak not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | djak not said here | a song of invitation | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sing | invitation | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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