Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 4
They made the journey, which took them two long years to get to his place.
Who acts: Indians, journey · What happens: make, take, get · To what, where: journey, Indians
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, journey), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 journey | det |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 journey | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Indians = indian | the journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the journey | Indians = indian | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the journey not said here | to Nanabush's place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
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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