Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 22
They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all kinds of birds, and Ciŋgəbis [3] was there too.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: mix up, be · To what, where: Ducks
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 (kinds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mixed | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 mixed | advmod |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 mixed | compound:prt |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 mixed | advmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 geese | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 geese | det |
| 10 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mixed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ducks | punct |
| 12 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 geese | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loons | punct |
| 14 | loons | loon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 geese | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 there | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 there | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 kinds | det |
| 18 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 there | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 birds | case |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kinds | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ciŋgəbis | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Ciŋgəbis | cc |
| 23 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 kinds | nmod |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 3 | punct |
| 25 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Ciŋgəbis | appos |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 3 | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 there | cop |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 mixed | advcl |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 there | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | past · passive | Ducks = duck | the geese and ducks and loons obl; long, well property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all kinds of birds Ciŋgəbis | there property | tree rules |
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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