Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 12
The Ojibways, or Chippewas, tell stories of a hero called by them Menabozho.
Who acts: Ojibways · What happens: tell, call · To what, where: stories, hero · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibways), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ojibways | det |
| 2 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chippewas | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 Chippewas | cc |
| 5 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ojibways | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ojibways | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hero | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | nmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hero | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | obl |
| 15 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the Ojibways or Chippewas | stories of a hero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a hero not said here | by stories = story; Menabozho xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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