Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 12
The one that got home told all the people what had happened.
Who acts: people · What happens: tell, happen · To what, where: one, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the one | all people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | all people | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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