Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 97
He explained how his nostrils were out at the end of his bill and how he got under the reeds and hid there.
Who acts: Wiske, nostrils · What happens: explain, be out, get, hide, bill · To what, where: end, reeds · 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 (Wiske, nostrils), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 explained | nsubj |
| 2 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 were | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 explained | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 were | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bill | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bill | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bill | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 and | advcl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 reeds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reeds | det |
| 20 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hid | cc |
| 22 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 hid | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Wiske | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be out | past | Wiske's nostrils | at the end of Wiske's bill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Wiske | the reeds | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | Wiske not said here | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bill | Wiske | 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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