Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 32
Notes by G. E. L.—The word “Lady” used here is equivalent to Ogemahkwee, which means a chief’s wife or daughter, or some female relative of a chief.
Who acts: Notes, kwee, G. E. L. · What happens: use, be, mean, note · To what, where: word, Ogemah, wife
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 (Notes, kwee, G. E. L.), 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 | Notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 equivalent | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 L. | case |
| 3 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 L. | compound |
| 4 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 L. | compound |
| 5 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Notes | nmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 equivalent | nsubj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lady | punct |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 word | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lady | punct |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 word | acl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 used | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 equivalent | cop |
| 15 | equivalent | equivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Ogemah | case |
| 17 | Ogemah | Ogemah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 equivalent | obl |
| 18 | | | PUNCT | _ | 19 kwee | punct |
| 19 | kwee | kwee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 equivalent | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 means | nsubj |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kwee | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 daughter | cc |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 relative | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 relative | cc |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 relative | det |
| 32 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 relative | amod |
| 33 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 chief | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 chief | det |
| 36 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 relative | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 equivalent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the word not said here | here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Notes by G. E. L. | Ogemah | the word nsubj; kwee parataxis; equivalent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | kwee | a chief's wife or daughter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 4 | note | G. E. L. | nom note «communication transitive»: by=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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