Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 10

They talked a little while when Nanabush said something to his daughter, who was a very nice-looking girl, and she started to cook something which was bear meat, and took some blueberries and cooked them (both) in a very little pot (about the size of a cup).

Who acts: Indians, Nanabush, daughter, girl · What happens: talk, say, look, be, start, cook · To what, where: something, daughter, looking girl, bear meat, blueberries, Indians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, Nanabush, daughter, girl), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 while	amod
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
7	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	advcl
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 girl	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 girl	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 girl	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 nice	advmod
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looking	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nice	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 started	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 started	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 started	nsubj
25	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cook	mark
27	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 started	xcomp
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 cook	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 meat	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 meat	cop
31	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meat	compound
32	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 something	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 took	cc
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	parataxis
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 blueberries	det
37	blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 took	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cooked	cc
39	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 took	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cooked	obj
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 both	punct
42	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	39 cooked	obl
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 both	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	48 pot	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 pot	det
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 little	advmod
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pot	amod
48	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cooked	obl
49	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 size	punct
50	about	about	ADV	_	52 size	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 size	det
52	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pot	appos
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 cup	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 cup	det
55	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 size	nmod
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 size	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Indians = indian			while		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Nanabush	something	Nanabush's daughter and a looking girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to daughter=Recipient
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	past	Nanabush's daughter and a looking girl	a looking girl				tree rules
5	start	past	girl					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cook	to-infinitive	girl not said here	something				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient
7	is a	past		bear meat			which nsubj	tree rules
8	take	past		some blueberries				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blueberry=Theme
9	cook	past		Indians = indian			in a little pot; both obl	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in pot=Instrument

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, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 10