Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 5
Once when the Lynx was very hungry he could not catch anything as there was too much snow.
Who acts: Lynx, much snow · What happens: be, not catch · To what, where: anything
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 (Lynx, much snow), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 hungry | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lynx | det |
| 4 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 catch | advmod |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hungry | parataxis |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | advcl |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 snow | amod |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lynx | hungry, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not catch | could | Lynx | anything | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | much snow | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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