Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 25

The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas George, Chippewa, of Rama Reserve, aged about sixty-four, professed Christian.

Who acts: Jonas George · What happens: remain, tell, profess · To what, where: remaining three stories, me, Christian · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jonas George), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stories	det
2	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stories	amod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stories	nummod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	obl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 summer	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 George	case
12	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 George	flat
13	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Chippewa	punct
15	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 George	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Reserve	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Reserve	case
18	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Reserve	compound
19	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 George	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 aged	punct
21	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 George	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 sixty	case
23	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 aged	obl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 four	punct
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sixty	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 professed	punct
27	professed	profess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 George	acl:relcl
28	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 professed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	remain	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive	Jonas George and Rama Reserve	the remaining three stories	me	summer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to i=Recipient
3	profess	past	Jonas George and Rama Reserve not said here	Christian			vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent christian=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 25