Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 10
There are no sturgeon in this chain of lakes, now known as the Kawartha Lakes.
Who acts: sturgeon · What happens: be, know · To what, where: chain
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sturgeon), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sturgeon | det |
| 4 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chain | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chain | det |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lakes | case |
| 9 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chain | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 are | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Lakes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lakes | det |
| 15 | Kawartha | Kawartha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lakes | compound |
| 16 | Lakes | Lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 known | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no sturgeon | this chain of lakes; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chain=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | no sturgeon not said here | now | as the Kawartha Lakes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as lake=Attribute |
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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