Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 13
They all sat down and started to eat out of the little pot.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: sit down, start, eat out · To what, where: little pot
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), 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 | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sat | advmod |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 started | cc |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 started | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pot | amod |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Indians = indian | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start | past | Indians = indian not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat out | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | the little pot | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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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