Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 6
Note.—John York said he used to camp at Sturgeon Lake years ago.
Who acts: Note, John · What happens: say, use, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Note, 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 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 John | punct |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 John | flat |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 camp | mark |
| 10 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 12 | Sturgeon | Sturgeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lake | compound |
| 13 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 years | compound |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 camp | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Note | John nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | past | John | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | camp | to-infinitive | John not said here | ago property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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