Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 2
The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in winter time on the ice.
Who acts: Ojibwas · What happens: enter, couchich · To what, where: Lake
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwas), 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 | 2 Ojibwas | det |
| 2 | Ojibwas | ojibwa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entering | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entering | aux |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 entering | advmod |
| 5 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entering | obj |
| 7 | Couchiching | couchich | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 entering | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Couchiching | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | compound |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Couchiching | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ice | det |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · progressive | the Ojibwas | Lake | once property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination | |||
| 2 | couchich | gerund | the Ojibwas not said here | time | by the west side | tree rules |
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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