Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 44

I spoke of the embankment at South Bay to York, but he had never seen it though he had heard of it, and remarked that it was “one of the fighting grounds.”

Who acts: I, York, embankment · What happens: speak, not see, hear, remark, be · To what, where: York, South Bay, embankment, one · 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 (I, York, embankment), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 embankment	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 embankment	det
5	embankment	embankment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Bay	case
7	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Bay	compound
8	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 York	case
10	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	obj
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 seen	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remarked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remarked	cc
26	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 heard	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 one	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 one	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 one	cop
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 remarked	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 grounds	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grounds	det
34	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grounds	compound
35	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	I		York	South Bay	of the embankment	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to york=Co-Agent
2	not see	past · perfect	York	embankment				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	hear	past · perfect	York				of embankment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
4	remark speech: assert	participle	York not said here					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	embankment	one			of the fighting grounds	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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 44

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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 44