Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 137
He drank a great deal of the liquor and got pretty dizzy before he thought about going home.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis · What happens: drink, get, think, go, deal · To what, where: great deal, liquor
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 (Ciŋgəbis), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 liquor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 liquor | det |
| 8 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deal | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 12 dizzy | advmod |
| 12 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dizzy | advcl |
| 16 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 going | mark |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 thought | advcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Ciŋgəbis | a great deal of the liquor | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Ciŋgəbis not said here | dizzy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ciŋgəbis | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | Ciŋgəbis not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deal | the liquor | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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