Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 33
This word is also used in speaking of, or to a white lady of quality.
What happens: use, speak · To what, where: word, speaking, white lady · 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: 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 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 used | advmod |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 speaking | case |
| 7 | speaking | speaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 lady | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speaking | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 quality | case |
| 16 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | this word | speaking of a white lady of quality | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak | a white lady of quality | nom speaking «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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