Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 26
His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.”
Who acts: Indian name, ghe zik, Reserve · What happens: be, mean, name · To what, where: ghe zik
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 (Indian name, ghe zik, Reserve), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 zik | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 zik | cop |
| 5 | Wash | Wash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 zik | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 zik | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 zik | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 a | punct |
| 9 | ghe | ghe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 zik | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ghe | punct |
| 11 | zik | zik | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 zik | parataxis |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 zik | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 zik | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Reserve's Indian name | a ghe zik | Wash nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | a ghe zik | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | Reserve | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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