Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 41
The river referred to is the Gull River.
Who acts: river · What happens: refer, be · To what, where: river, Gull River
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 (river), 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 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 River | nsubj |
| 3 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 river | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 referred | xcomp |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 River | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 River | det |
| 7 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | compound |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 River | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle | the river not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the river | the Gull River | tree rules |
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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