Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 92
Oh, they must be nice and tender!” thought he.
Who acts: legs · What happens: be, think · To what, where: Wiske
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 (legs), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 nice | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nice | cop |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tender | cc |
| 8 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nice | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 nice | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nice | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | legs = leg | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | legs = leg not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Wiske | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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