Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 79
He knew all kinds of things concerning the trees, the world, and everything which his grandfather had taught him.
Who acts: Suum · What happens: know, concern, teach · To what, where: kinds, everything, Suum
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suum), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 kinds | det |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 things | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 world | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taught | cc |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taught | aux |
| 20 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taught | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Suum | all kinds of things concern the trees the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | everything | Suum | which nsubj:pass; Suum's grandfather nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
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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