Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 31
Wash-a-ghe-zik had no name for this “something,” and said the Indians could not make up a name for it.
Who acts: you, ghe zik, Indians · What happens: wash, have, say, not make up · To what, where: name · 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 (you, ghe zik, Indians), 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 | Wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 zik | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 a | punct |
| 5 | ghe | ghe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 zik | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ghe | punct |
| 7 | zik | zik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wash | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Indians | det |
| 20 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 make | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 make | compound:prt |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | imperative | you not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | a ghe zik | no name | for this; something obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a ghe zik not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not make up | could | the Indians | a name | for name | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Pivot |
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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