Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 59
This story is from John York, who claims it is a true story and happened in the days gone by.
Who acts: story, John · What happens: be, claim, happen, go by · To what, where: John, true story, days · 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 (story, John), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 John | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 John | cop |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 John | case |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 John | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 claims | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 claims | nsubj |
| 9 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 John | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 story | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claims | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 days | det |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 happened | obl |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 days | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 gone | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 John | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this story | John | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | story | a true story | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | story not said here | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go by | participle | the days not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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