Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 7
He built a little fire in the middle of the wigwam and fixed a nice space all around it for the dance to take place.
Who acts: djak · What happens: build, fix, take · To what, where: little fire, middle, nice space, wigwam, place
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fire | amod |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wigwam | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wigwam | det |
| 11 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fixed | cc |
| 13 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 space | det |
| 15 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 space | amod |
| 16 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | obj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 it | advmod |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fixed | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dance | det |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fixed | advcl |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | djak | a little fire | the middle of the wigwam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 2 | fix | past | djak not said here | a nice space | wigwam | for the dance | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent space=Product for dance=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | djak not said here | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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