Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 6
The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way off.
Who acts: night, man · What happens: come, go out, meet · To what, where: Wintigo
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 (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 | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wintigo | det |
| 12 | Wintigo | Wintigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 meet | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | the man | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the man not said here | the Wintigo | a little way obl:unmarked; off property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wintigo=Co-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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