Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 91
“They are very well done to pull off so easily.
What happens: do, pull off · To what, where: legs
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: 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 | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pull | mark |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 pull | compound:prt |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 easily | advmod |
| 11 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 pull | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · passive | legs = leg | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pull off in a quote | to-infinitive | easily property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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