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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 61

“No,” said he, and fluttered his wings and sank out of sight, leaving only his bill above the water, which they could not see.

Who acts: duck, wings · What happens: say, flutter, sink, leave, not see, bill · To what, where: wings, sight, bill, water · 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 (duck, wings), 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

punctdiscoursepunctpunctnsubjpunctccconjnmod:possobjccconjcasecaseoblpunctadvcladvmodnmod:possobjcasedetnmodpunctobjnsubjauxadvmodparataxispunctroot“PUNCTNoINTJ,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBhePRON,PUNCTandCCONJflutteredVERBhisPRONwingsNOUNandCCONJsankVERBoutADPofADPsightNOUN,PUNCTleavingVERBonlyADVhisPRONbillNOUNaboveADPtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTseeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 saidpunct
2NonoINTJPolarity=Neg5 saiddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Nopunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Nopunct
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 saidnsubj
7,,PUNCT_9 flutteredpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 flutteredcc
9flutteredflutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 saidconj
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 wingsnmod:poss
11wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur9 flutteredobj
12andandCCONJ_13 sankcc
13sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 flutteredconj
14outoutADP_16 sightcase
15ofofADP_16 sightcase
16sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing13 sankobl
17,,PUNCT_18 leavingpunct
18leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 sankadvcl
19onlyonlyADV_21 billadvmod
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 billnmod:poss
21billbillNOUNNumber=Sing18 leavingobj
22aboveaboveADP_24 watercase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 waterdet
24waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing21 billnmod
25,,PUNCT_30 seepunct
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 seeobj
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 seensubj
28couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 seeaux
29notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 seeadvmod
30seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 billparataxis
31..PUNCT_5 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastduckvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2flutterpastduck not said hereduck's wingsvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3sinkpastduck not said heresightvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4leavegerundduck not said hereduck's billthe watervn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bill=Theme above water=Location
5not seecouldwings = wingduck's billvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6billduckthe waternom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent above=place

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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