Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 8
The Deer started off wild and went all over the woods, but the Lynx still held on having a good hold and the Deer could not shake him off.
Who acts: Deer, Lynx · What happens: start off, go, hold, have, not shake off · To what, where: woods, good hold, Lynx
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Deer | det |
| 2 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 started | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 woods | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lynx | det |
| 15 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 held | advmod |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 having | mark |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 held | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hold | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hold | amod |
| 22 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 having | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shake | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Deer | det |
| 25 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shake | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 shake | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 shake | advmod |
| 28 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 having | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shake | obj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 shake | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the Deer | wild property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Deer not said here | the woods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | the Lynx | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | the Lynx not said here | a good hold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not shake off | could | the Deer | Lynx | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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