Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 6
Some of these stories may appear crude, and others rather indefinite, but I have in no way altered them, preferring to leave them as they are.
Who acts: stories, I · What happens: appear, have, alter, prefer, leave, be · To what, where: crude, stories, way
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 (stories, I), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 stories | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | aux |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | crude | crude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 indefinite | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 indefinite | cc |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 indefinite | nsubj |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 indefinite | advmod |
| 12 | indefinite | indefinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appear | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 indefinite | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 altered | obl |
| 20 | altered | alter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | ccomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 altered | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 preferring | punct |
| 23 | preferring | prefer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 altered | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 preferring | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leave | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 are | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 are | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 leave | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | may | some stories | crude | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crude=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | alter | past | I not said here | stories = story | no way | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | prefer | gerund | I not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | stories = story | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | does | present | stories = story | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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