Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 34
Kissing is seldom met with in stories or tales of their own life by the Indians, so I think it is a modern introduction.
Who acts: Kissing, I, word, own life · What happens: kiss, meet, think, be, tell · To what, where: modern introduction · 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 (Kissing, I, word, own life), 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 | Kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 met | csubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux:pass |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 tales | cc |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stories | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | nmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Indians | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Indians | det |
| 16 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 life | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 think | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 introduction | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 introduction | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 introduction | det |
| 24 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 introduction | amod |
| 25 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | gerund | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | meet | present · passive | Kissing | with stories or tales of tales's own life by the Indians; seldom property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: with story=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | word | a modern introduction | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell | tales's own life by the Indians | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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