Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 32
The fight was getting pretty bad, when Wiske·djak cried out, “Hold on, hold on! it isn’t a lynx, it is Wiske·djak that you are pounding to death!”
Who acts: fight, Wiske djak, you · What happens: get, cry out, hold on, not be, be, pound · To what, where: lynx, Wiske, death · 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 (fight, Wiske djak, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fight | det |
| 2 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 cried | advmod |
| 9 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 djak | compound |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wiske | punct |
| 11 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hold | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hold | punct |
| 16 | Hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Hold | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Hold | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hold | compound:prt |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lynx | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lynx | cop |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 lynx | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lynx | det |
| 26 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 Wiske | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Wiske | cop |
| 30 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | parataxis |
| 31 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 32 djak | punct |
| 32 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Wiske | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 pounding | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 pounding | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 pounding | aux |
| 36 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 getting | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 death | case |
| 38 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pounding | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | the fight | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Wiske djak | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold on in a quote | infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold on in a quote | infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | fight | a lynx | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | fight | Wiske and djak | djak conj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | pound in a quote | present · progressive | you | death | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to death=Trajectory |
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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