Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 100
Then I dive to the bottom and eat some little mussels and things on the bottom and come up to the hole again.
Who acts: I · What happens: dive, eat, come up · To what, where: bottom, little mussels, hole
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dive | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dive | nsubj |
| 3 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dive | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eat | cc |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dive | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 mussels | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mussels | amod |
| 11 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 things | cc |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mussels | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mussels | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dive | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 hole | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hole | det |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | present | I | the bottom | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location | |||
| 2 | eat | present | I not said here | some little mussels and things | the bottom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Patient | |||
| 3 | come up | present | I not said here | the hole | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location |
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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