Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 25
Then, while their eyes were closed, Wiske·djak got up and began wringing the neck of one after another.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: close, get up, begin, wring · To what, where: eyes, neck
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 (Wiske), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 closed | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 closed | aux:pass |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 got | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 closed | punct |
| 9 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 11 djak | punct |
| 11 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Wiske | appos |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 16 | wringing | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neck | det |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wringing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 neck | nmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 another | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | Ducks's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | Wiske | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Wiske not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wring | gerund | Wiske not said here | the neck of one after another | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
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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