Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 19
When they came to this house they saw some people who invited them to eat, but they did not eat.
Who acts: dogs, people · What happens: come, see, invite, eat, not eat · To what, where: house, people, dogs
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 (dogs, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 invited | nsubj |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invited | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 eat | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eat | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 eat | advmod |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saw | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dogs = dog | this house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | dogs = dog | some people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | some people | dogs = dog | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | dogs = dog not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not eat | past · do-support | dogs = dog | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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