Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 2
One time an old witch lived in Rama on the west side of Lake Couchiching.
Who acts: old witch · What happens: live · To what, where: Rama
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Rama | case |
| 8 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Lake | case |
| 14 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 15 | Couchiching | Couchiching | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lake | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old witch | Rama | time | on the west side of Lake | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rama=Location |
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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