Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 72
“You cannot be Ciŋgəbis, because there is only one Ciŋgəbis, and we heard he was drowned.
Who acts: You, one, Ciŋgəbis · What happens: not be, be, hear, drown · To what, where: 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 (You, one, Ciŋgəbis), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Ciŋgəbis | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ciŋgəbis | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Ciŋgəbis | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Ciŋgəbis | cop |
| 6 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 is | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ciŋgəbis | acl:relcl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drowned | aux:pass |
| 20 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | can | You | Ciŋgəbis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | one Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ciŋgəbis=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | Ciŋgəbis | we nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drown in a quote | past · passive | Ciŋgəbis | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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