Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 1
Told by Ben Simcoe, Chippewa (Ojibwa), of Rama Reserve, Ontario County.
What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. 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.
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 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 Ben | case |
| 3 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Told | obl:agent |
| 4 | Simcoe | Simcoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ben | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chippewa | punct |
| 6 | Chippewa | Chippewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ben | conj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ojibwa | punct |
| 8 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chippewa | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ojibwa | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Reserve | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Reserve | case |
| 12 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Reserve | compound |
| 13 | Reserve | Reserve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Told | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 County | punct |
| 15 | Ontario | Ontario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 County | compound |
| 16 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Reserve | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | of Rama Reserve and Ontario County; Ben and Chippewa obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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