Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 23
I could not get definitely from the Simcoe who it did stand for.
Who acts: I · What happens: not get, stand · To what, where: Simcoe
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Simcoe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Simcoe | det |
| 8 | Simcoe | Simcoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 stand | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | I | the Simcoe | definitely property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from simcoe=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past · do-support | who nsubj; word nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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