Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 20
“A great big beaver,” a giant beaver, etc.
To what, where: great big beaver
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales.. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beaver | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beaver | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beaver | amod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beaver | amod |
| 5 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beaver | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beaver | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beaver | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beaver | amod |
| 10 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beaver | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beaver | punct |
| 12 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 5 beaver | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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