Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 5
The Ojibwa chief had one son and one daughter.
Who acts: Ojibwa chief · What happens: have · To what, where: one son
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (Ojibwa chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 son | nummod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daughter | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 daughter | nummod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Ojibwa chief | one son and one daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/5/