Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 3
One time, in the autumn of the year, he noticed the flocks of ducks flying south and how fat they were.
Who acts: djak, ducks · What happens: notice, fly · To what, where: flocks
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, ducks), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 autumn | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 autumn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 autumn | det |
| 6 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 autumn | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flocks | det |
| 14 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 noticed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ducks | case |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flocks | nmod |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ducks | acl |
| 18 | south | south | ADV | _ | 17 flying | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fat | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 fat | advmod |
| 21 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flocks | conj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 were | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | djak | the flocks of ducks and fat | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | ducks not said here | south property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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