Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 16
He is still living somewhere, but he is very quiet now, as we don’t hear of him doing anything new nowadays.
Who acts: djak, we · What happens: live, be, not hear, do · To what, where: anything · 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 (djak, we), 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 | 4 living | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 living | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 living | advmod |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 living | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quiet | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 quiet | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quiet | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 quiet | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 quiet | advmod |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 living | parataxis |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 quiet | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 hear | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 hear | advmod |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 quiet | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | nsubj |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hear | ccomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 doing | obj |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 anything | amod |
| 24 | nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 21 doing | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · progressive | djak | still | somewhere property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | djak | now | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not hear | present · do-support | we | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | djak | anything | nowadays property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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