Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 57
When they got near, they recognized him and asked him, “Are you not Ciŋgəbis?”
Who acts: brothers, duck · What happens: get, recognize, ask, not be · To what, where: duck, Ciŋgəbis · 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 (brothers, duck), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recognized | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recognized | nsubj |
| 7 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recognized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recognized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ciŋgəbis | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ciŋgəbis | punct |
| 14 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Ciŋgəbis | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 Ciŋgəbis | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 Ciŋgəbis | advmod |
| 17 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 recognized | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | brothers = brother | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | recognize | past | brothers = brother | duck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | brothers = brother not said here | duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | duck | Ciŋgəbis | 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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