Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 94
“They must be very well cooked to come out of the sand so freely.”
What happens: cook, come out · To what, where: legs, sand
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 | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cooked | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 cooked | advmod |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cooked | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 freely | advmod |
| 15 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook in a quote | must · passive | legs = leg | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come out in a quote | to-infinitive | the sand | freely property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sand=Result |
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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