Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 2
(A most curious blending of the old and the new.
To what, where: curious blending
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. 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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 blending | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blending | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 curious | advmod |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blending | amod |
| 5 | blending | blending | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 old | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 old | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blending | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 new | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 new | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 old | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blending | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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