Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 11
“No, not very,” answered the Lynx, because every thing living or dead had to reply when Wiske·djak asked it a question.
Who acts: Lynx, thing, Wiske djak · What happens: answer, live, have, reply, ask · To what, where: question, Lynx
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 (Lynx, thing, Wiske 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 very | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 very | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 very | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 very | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lynx | det |
| 10 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 thing | acl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 dead | cc |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 living | conj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reply | mark |
| 20 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 asked | mark |
| 22 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 djak | compound |
| 23 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 22 Wiske | punct |
| 24 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reply | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asked | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 question | det |
| 28 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Lynx | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | gerund | every thing not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | every thing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | every thing not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Wiske djak | a question | Lynx | tree rules |
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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