Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 4
Because he was so funny, it was thought good to have him going about in spite of his mischief.
Who acts: djak · What happens: be, think, have, go, spite · To what, where: mischief, djak · 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), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 funny | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 funny | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 funny | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 funny | advmod |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | aux:pass |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 funny | conj |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 spite | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spite | case |
| 17 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mischief | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mischief | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spite | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 funny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | djak | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · passive | mischief | good property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | djak | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | djak not said here | about spite of djak's mischief | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about spite=Location | ||||
| 5 | spite | djak's mischief | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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