Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 6

The night came and this man and wife watched nearly all night, till about daylight they heard an owl and some other kind of bird.

Who acts: night, man · What happens: come, watch, hear · To what, where: owl

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, man), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 watched	cc
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wife	cc
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 night	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	till	till	ADP	_	16 daylight	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 daylight	advmod
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watched	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 owl	det
20	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kind	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 kind	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kind	amod
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 owl	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bird	case
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	past	this man and wife		night	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	man	a owl and some other kind of bird	till daylight	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 6