Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 12
This personage while being human possesses certain supernatural powers, one of them being, that whoever or whatever he addressed had to answer him.
Who acts: personage · What happens: be, possess, address, have, answer · To what, where: certain supernatural powers, whoever, personage
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (personage), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 personage | det |
| 2 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possesses | nsubj |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 human | mark |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 human | cop |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 personage | acl |
| 6 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 powers | amod |
| 8 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 powers | amod |
| 9 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 possesses | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 powers | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 whoever | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whoever | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 whoever | mark |
| 17 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 one | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 whatever | cc |
| 19 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 whoever | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 addressed | nsubj |
| 21 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 addressed | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 answer | mark |
| 24 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 answer | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 possesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | this personage not said here | human property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | this personage | certain supernatural powers | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | whoever | whatever conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | address | past | personage | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | past | personage not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | personage not said here | personage | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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