Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 27
Pretty soon, Ciŋgəbis began to suspect that Wiske·djak was moving around, so he danced over into a dark corner where Wiske·djak could not see him and opened one of his eyes a little to peep out.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, Wiske djak, djak · What happens: begin, suspect, move around, dance over, not see, open · To what, where: dark corner, Ciŋgəbis, one
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 (Ciŋgəbis, Wiske djak, djak), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 suspect | mark |
| 7 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 moving | mark |
| 9 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 djak | compound |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wiske | punct |
| 11 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moving | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moving | aux |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 suspect | advcl |
| 14 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 moving | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 danced | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 danced | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 danced | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 corner | amod |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 see | advmod |
| 25 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 djak | compound |
| 26 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wiske | punct |
| 27 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 see | advmod |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 corner | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 opened | cc |
| 33 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 danced | conj |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 opened | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 little | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 peep | mark |
| 41 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 little | acl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 peep | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Ciŋgəbis | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | suspect | to-infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | move around | past · progressive | Wiske djak | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dance over | past | djak | a dark corner | over property | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme into corner=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not see | could | Wiske djak | Ciŋgəbis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | open | past | djak not said here | one of djak's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||||
| 7 | peep out | to-infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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