Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 54
“Now,” said he, “I’ll take a little sleep while my birds are cooking in the sand.”
Who acts: djak, birds · What happens: say, take, cook · To what, where: little sleep · 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, birds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sleep | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sleep | amod |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 cooking | mark |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 birds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cooking | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cooking | aux |
| 19 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 take | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sand | det |
| 22 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cooking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | djak | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | djak | a little sleep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cook in a quote | present · progressive | my birds | in the sand | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent in sand=Instrument |
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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