Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 7
Soon he saw one coming and he climbed up a tree and when the deer came under the tree the Lynx jumped on his back.
Who acts: Lynx, deer · What happens: see, come, climb up, jump · To what, where: one, tree, back
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, deer), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jumped | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 jumped | advcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lynx | det |
| 21 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 jumped | nsubj |
| 22 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbed | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jumped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lynx | one | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | climb up | past | Lynx | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the deer | the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | the Lynx | Lynx's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
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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