Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 8
This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she watched if her man would come home.
Who acts: Wintigo, wife, man · What happens: keep on, go past, watch, come · To what, where: This
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 (Wintigo, wife, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 kept | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 kept | conj |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 12 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | past | past | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watched | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watched | nsubj |
| 19 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 man | nmod:poss |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 watched | ccomp |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | participle · passive | This | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go past | past | Wintigo | past property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | would | wife's man | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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