Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 43
(This is borne out by other evidence than York’s.)
Who acts: other evidence · What happens: bear out · To what, where: This
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 (other evidence), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | aux:pass |
| 4 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 borne | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 evidence | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 evidence | amod |
| 8 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 borne | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 York | case |
| 10 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 evidence | nmod |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 York | case |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear out | present · passive | other evidence than York | This | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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