Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 2
A good many years ago two families lived on an Island.
Who acts: two families · What happens: live · To what, where: Island
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 (two families), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 families | nummod |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Island | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Island | det |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two families | a Island | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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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