Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 1
Wiske·djak was always doing mischief in his lifetime among the Indians, so it is said.
Who acts: Wiske djak · What happens: do, say · To what, where: mischief, lifetime · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske djak), 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 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 djak | compound |
| 2 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wiske | punct |
| 3 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 doing | advmod |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lifetime | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 Indians | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indians | det |
| 13 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 lifetime | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | aux:pass |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 doing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · progressive | Wiske djak | mischief | djak's lifetime among the Indians | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | mischief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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