Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 7
The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying all over and she saw two great, big men biting each other and hitting each other with great, big trees, and also with their hands.
Who acts: wife, trees, two great big men · What happens: listen, hear, fly, see, bite, hit · To what, where: trees, two great big men, each
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 (wife, trees, two great big 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 while | amod |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 heard | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 trees | acl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 flying | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 men | nummod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obj |
| 24 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 men | acl |
| 25 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 biting | obj |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 each | fixed |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hitting | cc |
| 28 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 biting | conj |
| 29 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 28 hitting | obj |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 each | fixed |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 trees | case |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trees | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 great | punct |
| 34 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trees | amod |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hitting | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hands | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 hands | cc |
| 38 | also | also | ADV | _ | 41 hands | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 hands | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the wife | while | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | wife | trees | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fly | gerund | trees not said here | over property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | wife | two great big men | with trees's hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | bite | gerund | two great big men not said here | each | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hit | gerund | two great big men not said here | each | with great big trees | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with tree=Instrument |
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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