Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 15
This band of Ojibwas did not know where or when Nanabush was born, or the circumstances of his birth.
Who acts: band · What happens: not know, bear · To what, where: 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 (band), 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 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ojibwas | case |
| 4 | Ojibwas | ojibwa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 band | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 born | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 born | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 born | advmod |
| 11 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 know | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 circumstances | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 circumstances | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 circumstances | det |
| 17 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 born | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 birth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 birth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 circumstances | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | this band of Ojibwas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Nanabush | the circumstances of Nanabush's birth obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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