Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 13
Nanabush seems to have been a joker and a scapegoat at times, and is reputed to be alive yet.
Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: seem, be, repute · To what, where: joker
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 (Nanabush), 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 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 joker | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 joker | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 joker | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joker | det |
| 7 | joker | joker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scapegoat | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scapegoat | det |
| 10 | scapegoat | scapegoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joker | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seems | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reputed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reputed | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reputed | aux:pass |
| 16 | reputed | repute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seems | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 alive | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 alive | cop |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reputed | xcomp |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 reputed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Nanabush | time | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | Nanabush not said here | a joker and a scapegoat | a scapegoat conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | repute | present · passive | Nanabush not said here | yet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | alive property | 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: «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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