Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 14
York remarked upon one occasion that Nanabush “was a sort of god” and addresses him as Mr. Nanabush.
Who acts: one occasion · What happens: remark, be, address · To what, where: sort, Nanabush · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one occasion), 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 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remarked | compound |
| 2 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 occasion | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 occasion | nummod |
| 5 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remarked | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 addresses | nsubj |
| 7 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 addresses | nsubj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sort | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Nanabush | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 god | case |
| 13 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 addresses | cc |
| 16 | addresses | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 occasion | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 addresses | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Nanabush | case |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Nanabush | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 addresses | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | upon one occasion; York compound | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | a sort | of god | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | address | present | one occasion | Nanabush | as Nanabush Mr. | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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