Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 8
They saw a big camp here and went to the door and rapped.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: see, go, rap · To what, where: big camp, door
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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 camp | amod |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 saw | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rapped | cc |
| 13 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Indians = indian | a big camp | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer camp=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | Indians = indian not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rap | past | Indians = indian not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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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