Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 4

The tales told by John York were told in Ojibwa to Peter York and were written down in English by Peter York, who can read and write English.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: tell, write down, read, write · To what, where: tales, Ojibwa, English · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tales	det
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	nsubj:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tales	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 John	case
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:agent
6	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 John	flat
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ojibwa	case
10	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Peter	case
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl:agent
13	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Peter	flat
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 written	cc
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 written	aux:pass
16	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 told	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 written	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 English	case
19	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 written	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 Peter	case
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 written	obl
22	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Peter	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 read	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 read	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 read	aux
26	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Peter	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 write	cc
28	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 read	conj
29	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 write	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		the tales not said here		John obl:agent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive	Peter	the tales	Ojibwa		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	write down	past · passive	Peter		English		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	can	Peter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	infinitive	Peter not said here	English			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Theme

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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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 4