Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 11
While those men were watching the girl one of them thought, “I could eat all that in the pot with one spoonful.”
Who acts: men, I · What happens: watch, think, eat · To what, where: girl, that, pot · 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 (men, I), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 watching | mark |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watching | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | aux |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girl | flat |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 that | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 eat | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pot | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eat | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 spoonful | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 spoonful | nummod |
| 24 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pot | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | that men | the girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | could | I | that | the pot with one spoonful | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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