Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 85
His nostrils were at the end of his bill, so he could breathe with only a bit above water.
Who acts: nostrils, family · What happens: be, breathe, bill · To what, where: end
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 (nostrils, family), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bill | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bill | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breathe | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 breathe | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 breathe | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 breathe | aux |
| 14 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 end | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bit | case |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 bit | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breathe | obl |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | family's nostrils | at the end | of family's bill | tree rules | |||
| 2 | breathe | could | family | with a bit above water | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bill | family | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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