Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 5
ki·′bəba‵ma·‵dəzitc e′ji· ani′cənabe·ka‵nik ki·bəba′ndə going about during his life wherever there were Indians.
Who acts: ji, bəba ndə · What happens: ′, go about, be · To what, where: Indians, ki
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 (ji, bəba ndə), 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 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma | punct |
| 3 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bəba | compound |
| 4 | bəba | bəba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ma | compound |
| 5 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ma | compound |
| 6 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ki | conj |
| 7 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 10 e | punct |
| 8 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dəzitc | compound |
| 9 | dəzitc | dəzitc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 e | compound |
| 10 | e | e | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 1 ki | appos |
| 11 | ′ | ′ | PUNCT | _ | 15 ′ | punct |
| 12 | ji | JI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ′ | nsubj |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 15 ′ | punct |
| 14 | ani | ani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ′ | compound |
| 15 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 e | conj |
| 16 | cənabe | cənabe | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ′ | dep |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 ka | punct |
| 18 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ′ | appos |
| 19 | ‵ | ‵ | PUNCT | _ | 21 ki | punct |
| 20 | nik | nik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ki | compound |
| 21 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ka | conj |
| 22 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 25 ndə | punct |
| 23 | bəba | bəba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ndə | compound |
| 24 | ′ | ′ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 bəba | flat |
| 25 | ndə | ndə | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 e | conj |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 ndə | acl |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 going | advmod |
| 28 | during | during | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | obl |
| 31 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 were | advmod |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 were | expl |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Indians | cop |
| 34 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 going | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ′ | ji | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go about | gerund | bəba ndə not said here | during ji's life | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Indians | tree rules |
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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