Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 13
Note.—Nanabush is often referred to as “The Old Man.”
What happens: refer · To what, where: Nanabush, Note
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 referred | punct |
| 4 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 referred | aux:pass |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 referred | advmod |
| 7 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Note | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 referred | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Man | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Man | det |
| 12 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Man | amod |
| 13 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 referred | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 referred | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present · passive | Nanabush | as the Old Man; often property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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