Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 12

She never told how she came back, neither did her grandson, so it was never known to the rest.

Who acts: woman · What happens: not tell, come back, do, not know · To what, where: grandson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Killing the Old People.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 did	cc:preconj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandson	nmod:poss
12	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 known	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 known	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 known	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux:pass
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 known	advmod
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 known	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past	woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come back	past	woman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	woman not said here	woman's grandson		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandson=Eventuality
4	not know	past · passive		grandson	to the rest	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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, Killing the Old People., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 12