Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 15
So the Indian had good luck finding them both.
Who acts: Indian, good luck · What happens: have, find · To what, where: good luck, woods
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 (Indian, good luck), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indian | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 luck | acl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 finding | obj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 finding | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Indian | good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | good luck not said here | woods = wood | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme both=Attribute |
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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