Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 149
Do you know what it is that is creeping over us?” he asked his wife, and gave the stump another poke with his elbow.
Who acts: you, two · What happens: know, creep, ask, give · To what, where: wife, stump · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, two), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 creeping | nsubj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 creeping | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 creeping | aux |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 creeping | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 creeping | aux |
| 9 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 creeping | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stump | det |
| 22 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 poke | det |
| 24 | poke | poke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 elbow | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 27 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 poke | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | creep | present · progressive | over us; what nsubj; crawling nsubj; that nsubj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over we=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | two | two's wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | two not said here | the stump | another poke obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent stump=Recipient poke=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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