Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 41
The other people knew that it was Wiske·djak all the time and laughed to themselves and made fun of the pair.
Who acts: other people, thing · What happens: know, be, laugh, make · To what, where: Wiske djak, people, fun · 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 (other people, thing), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 djak | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 djak | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 djak | cop |
| 8 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 djak | compound |
| 9 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 10 djak | punct |
| 10 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | cc |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 themselves | case |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 laughed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laughed | conj |
| 20 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pair | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pair | det |
| 23 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fun | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the other people | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | thing | Wiske djak | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the other people not said here | people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the other people not said here | fun of the pair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
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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