Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 122

[58] Mr. Fergusson writes: “Another Indian told me some stories that he had heard from his grandmother, who could speak the Ojibwa tongue.

Who acts: Fergusson, Indian, grandmother · What happens: write, tell, hear, speak · To what, where: 58, stories, Indian, Ojibwa tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergusson, Indian, grandmother), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 58	punct
2	58	58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 writes	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 58	punct
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fergusson	nmod:desc
5	Fergusson	Fergusson	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 writes	nsubj
6	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 Indian	det
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 writes	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 stories	det
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 heard	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 grandmother	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grandmother	nmod:poss
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 speak	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 speak	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 speak	aux
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 grandmother	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tongue	det
27	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tongue	compound
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 speak	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 writes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	present	Fergusson Mr.	58			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	another Indian	some stories	another Indian = indian		tree rules
3	hear in a quote	past · perfect	Fergusson			from Fergusson's grandmother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from grandmother=Source
4	speak speech: other in a quote	could	Fergusson's grandmother	the Ojibwa tongue			tree rules

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 122