Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 16
This story was told to Wash-a-ghe-zik by his father, and was told to his father by his grandfather.
Who acts: story, grandfather · What happens: tell, wash · To what, where: story, ghe zik, father · 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: who acts (story, grandfather), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 Wash | mark |
| 6 | Wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 zik | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | ghe | ghe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 zik | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ghe | punct |
| 12 | zik | zik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wash | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wash | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux:pass |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 grandfather | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | this story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wash not said to happen | to-infinitive | this story not said here | a ghe zik | by man's father | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zik=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | man's grandfather | man's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient |
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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