Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 7
John York is an old man of 96 years and his Indian name is “Kitche-Penascie” or “Big Thunder.”
Who acts: John · What happens: be, name · To what, where: old man, Kitche
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 (John), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 John | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 man | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 name | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Kitche | cop |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kitche | punct |
| 16 | Kitche | Kitche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Penascie | punct |
| 18 | Penascie | Penascie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kitche | conj |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kitche | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Thunder | cc |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Thunder | punct |
| 22 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Thunder | amod |
| 23 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Kitche | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | John | a old man and John's Indian name and Kitche and Penascie or Big Thunder | year | John's Indian name conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | John not said here | Kitche and Penascie or Big Thunder | Penascie conj; Big Thunder conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | John | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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