Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 18
They told him where he was and the name of the place, and then he knew which way to go to reach his own camp.
Who acts: man, York · What happens: tell, be, know, go, reach · To what, where: York, name, way, own camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, York), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 name | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 name | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 name | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 knew | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 18 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 way | acl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 reach | mark |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 camp | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 camp | amod |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | York | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | York | the name | of the place | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | past | York | which way | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | York not said here | which way not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | reach | to-infinitive | York not said here | York's own camp | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent camp=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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