Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 11
u·jo′dji·ma‵nəs·ik mɔ·′jαk ki·gmita′zəga·‵mɛ·tc kenowekwa·′s·e no canoe; always he walked about the land a great distance,
Who acts: jo, u · What happens: e, walk · To what, where: canoe, great distance
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jo, u), 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 | u | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jo | nsubj |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 3 jo | punct |
| 3 | jo | jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 e | nsubj |
| 4 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 5 dji | punct |
| 5 | dji | dji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jo | conj |
| 6 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 7 ma | punct |
| 7 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jo | flat |
| 8 | ‵ | ‵ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 nəs | nummod |
| 9 | nəs | nə | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jo | flat |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 12 mɔ | punct |
| 11 | ik | ik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mɔ | compound |
| 12 | mɔ | mɔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nəs | conj |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 16 ki | punct |
| 14 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ki | compound |
| 15 | jαk | jαk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ki | compound |
| 16 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mɔ | appos |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 zəga | punct |
| 18 | gmita | gmita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ′ | compound |
| 19 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 zəga | compound |
| 20 | zəga | zəga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ki | conj |
| 21 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 23 mɛ | punct |
| 22 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mɛ | compound |
| 23 | mɛ | mɛ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ki | conj |
| 24 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 26 kenowekwa | punct |
| 25 | tc | tc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kenowekwa | compound |
| 26 | kenowekwa | kenowekwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nəs | conj |
| 27 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 28 ′ | punct |
| 28 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kenowekwa | conj |
| 29 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 28 ′ | case |
| 30 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 31 e | punct |
| 31 | e | e | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 canoe | det |
| 33 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 e | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 walked | punct |
| 35 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 37 walked | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 walked | nsubj |
| 37 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 e | conj |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 land | det |
| 40 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 walked | obl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 distance | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 distance | amod |
| 43 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 walked | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 e | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | past | jo u and dji | no canoe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | u | a great distance | about the land; always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about land=Trajectory |
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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