Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 12
He saw a deer track which was a very bad one with blood all over.
Who acts: deer, deer track · What happens: see, be · To what, where: deer track, bad one
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, deer track), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 track | det |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 track | compound |
| 5 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 one | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 bad | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 track | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | deer | a deer track | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a deer track | a bad one | with blood | tree rules |
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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