Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 28
There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their necks, and he called out, “Wiske·djak is killing you!
Who acts: djak, Wiske djak · What happens: see, go, wring, call out, kill · To what, where: Wiske, dancers, necks, you · 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 (djak, Wiske 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 6 djak | punct |
| 6 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 djak | acl |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 dancers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dancers | det |
| 10 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wringing | punct |
| 12 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 necks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wringing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 called | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 killing | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 killing | punct |
| 22 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 djak | compound |
| 23 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 22 Wiske | punct |
| 24 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killing | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 killing | aux |
| 26 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 called | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 killing | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | djak | Wiske | there | djak obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | go | gerund | djak not said here | the dancers | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among dancer=Location | ||||
| 3 | wring | gerund | djak not said here | dancers's necks | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: express | past | djak | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | Wiske djak | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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