Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 2
This series was obtained from Peter York this summer of 1915, when camped here with his family of basket makers, and also after his return to the Rama Reserve where he lives.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: obtain, camp, live, return · To what, where: series, Peter
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 (Peter), 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 series | det |
| 2 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obtained | aux:pass |
| 4 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Peter | case |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | obl |
| 7 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Peter | flat |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 summer | det |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Peter | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1915 | case |
| 11 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 summer | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 camped | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 camped | advmod |
| 14 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obtained | conj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 camped | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 family | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 family | nmod:poss |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 camped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 makers | case |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makers | compound |
| 21 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 family | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 return | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 return | cc |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 return | advmod |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 return | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 return | nmod:poss |
| 27 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Reserve | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Reserve | det |
| 30 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Reserve | compound |
| 31 | Reserve | Reserve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 return | nmod |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 lives | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lives | nsubj |
| 34 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Reserve | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past · passive | this series | Peter | Peter's return to the Rama Reserve parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from peter=Source | |||
| 2 | camp | participle | here | with Peter's family of basket makers | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | present | Peter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | Peter | to the Rama Reserve | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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