Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 14
She sat in the middle of the canoe with one of the young men paddling at the bow and the other at the stern.
Who acts: witch, young men · What happens: sit, paddle · To what, where: middle, bow
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, young men), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sat | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | paddling | paddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 men | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 bow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bow | det |
| 18 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paddling | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 other | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 stern | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stern | det |
| 24 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 other | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | witch | the middle of the canoe | with one of the young men | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | paddle | gerund | the young men not said here | the bow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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