Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 6
Well, he thought that he would try and kill a deer, so he went out on one of their runways and watched for a deer to come along.
Who acts: Lynx · What happens: think, try, kill, go out, watch, come along · To what, where: deer
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 try | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 try | aux |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kill | cc |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deer | det |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 runways | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 runways | nmod:poss |
| 22 | runways | runway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 watched | cc |
| 24 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 deer | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deer | det |
| 27 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 watched | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 watched | advcl |
| 30 | along | along | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Lynx | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try | would | Lynx | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | Lynx not said here | a deer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go out | past | Lynx | on one of snow's runways | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | watch | past | Lynx not said here | for a deer | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for deer=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come along | to-infinitive | Lynx not said here | along 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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