Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 3
He spent his life going about everywhere where there were Indians, to tease them and play mischief among them.
Who acts: djak · What happens: spend, go about, be, tease, play · To what, where: life, Indians, mischief
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 | 2 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spent | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 everywhere | advmod |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 going | advmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 were | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Indians | cop |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tease | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tease | mark |
| 14 | tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spent | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tease | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 play | cc |
| 17 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 tease | conj |
| 18 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 play | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 play | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | djak | djak's life | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go about | gerund | djak not said here | everywhere property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Indians | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tease | to-infinitive | Indians = indian | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 5 | play | infinitive | mischief | among Indians = indian | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=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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