Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 42
The Ojibwa used to come to where Beaverton now is and then across to South Bay, Balsam Lake, by another route south of the Portage Road.
Who acts: Ojibwa · What happens: use, come, be · To what, where: South Bay
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 (Ojibwa), 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 Ojibwa | det |
| 2 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 where | case |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 come | advmod |
| 8 | Beaverton | Beaverton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 where | appos |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 Bay | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Bay | cop |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Bay | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 Bay | advmod |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 Bay | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Bay | case |
| 15 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bay | compound |
| 16 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Beaverton | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lake | punct |
| 18 | Balsam | Balsam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Lake | compound |
| 19 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Beaverton | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 route | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 route | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 route | det |
| 23 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 24 | south | south | ADV | _ | 23 route | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Road | det |
| 27 | Portage | Portage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Road | compound |
| 28 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 route | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the Ojibwa | by another route of the Portage Road | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the Ojibwa not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Ojibwa not said here | South Bay | now; then | 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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