Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 2
He was always doing everything he could to plague his countrymen, the Indians.
Who acts: djak · What happens: do, plague · To what, where: everything, countrymen
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), 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 doing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 doing | advmod |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 everything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 plague | mark |
| 9 | plague | plague | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doing | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 11 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plague | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Indians | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indians | det |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 doing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · progressive | djak | everything | the Indians obl; always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | plague | to-infinitive | djak not said here | djak's countrymen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus countryman=Experiencer |
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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