Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 15
All of Wiske·djak’s pranks were done at different times long ago, not all one after another at one time, as it might seem.
Who acts: it · What happens: do, seem · To what, where: pranks
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 (it), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 djak | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Wiske | case |
| 3 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 5 djak | punct |
| 5 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pranks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 djak | case |
| 7 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 done | obl |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ago | advmod |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 done | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 one | advmod |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 done | parataxis |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 another | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 time | nummod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seem | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 seem | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seem | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 seem | aux |
| 28 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | all djak's pranks | time | all one after another at one time parataxis; ago property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | seem | might | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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