Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 58
Note.—(The old man in this story is Nanabush, who was also the man that spoke about the dogs.)
Who acts: old man, Nanabush, man · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: Nanabush, man, Note · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Nanabush, man), 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 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nanabush | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nanabush | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nanabush | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Nanabush | cop |
| 12 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Note | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 man | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 man | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nanabush | appos |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 dogs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dogs | det |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spoke | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nanabush | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nanabush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old man in this story | Nanabush | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Nanabush | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the man | about the dogs | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dog=Topic |
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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