Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 9

The Deer knew that there was a leaning tree in the bush so he made for that, knowing that he could knock the Lynx off as he ran under the tree.

Who acts: Deer, leaning tree · What happens: know, be, lean, make, knock off, run · To what, where: Lynx, tree

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, leaning tree), 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 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bush	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bush	det
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	nmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knowing	punct
19	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 made	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 knock	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knock	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 knock	aux
23	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knowing	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Lynx	det
25	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 knock	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	23 knock	compound:prt
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 ran	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knock	advcl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 tree	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Deer				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	a leaning tree in the bush		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lean	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	deer			for that	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for that=Asset
5	know	gerund	deer not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	knock off	could	deer	the Lynx			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lynx=Theme
7	run	past	deer		the tree		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 9