Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 4
He could be just as big and just as strong, and during one winter time he knew that the Wintigo was coming to eat them (i.e. his family).
Who acts: man, Wintigo · What happens: be, know, come, eat · To what, where: Wintigoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants).. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Wintigo), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 big | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strong | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 strong | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 strong | advmod |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 big | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 time | nummod |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wintigo | det |
| 21 | Wintigo | Wintigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 coming | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 family | punct |
| 28 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 30 family | advmod |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 family | nmod:poss |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 family | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | man | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | man | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | the Wintigo | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the Wintigo not said here | Wintigoes = wintigoe | man's family obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
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