Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 11
On their way he saw a big house by the roadside, but before they reached the house he heard somebody talk to him and who told him that “this was the place where all the dogs live that you ever owned.
Who acts: husband, people, somebody, this, dogs · What happens: see, reach, hear, talk, tell, be · To what, where: big house, way, house, husband, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, people, somebody, this), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 roadside | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roadside | det |
| 11 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 talk | nsubj |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talk | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 told | nsubj |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 place | mark |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 place | punct |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 place | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 place | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 told | ccomp |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 live | advmod |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 dogs | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dogs | det |
| 38 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 live | nsubj |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 place | acl:relcl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 owned | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 owned | nsubj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 owned | advmod |
| 43 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 live | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | husband | a big house | people's way | by the roadside | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | reach | past | people | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | husband | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | talk | infinitive | somebody | husband | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | husband | who nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | this | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | present | all dogs | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | own in a quote | past | husband | ever | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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