Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 16
She told a very bad (pitiful) story to the men.
Who acts: party · What happens: tell · To what, where: bad pitiful story, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 bad | advmod |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 pitiful | punct |
| 7 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 pitiful | punct |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | party | a bad pitiful story | the men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to man=Recipient |
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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