Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 23
When he got in he saw nothing but a big room full of little beds, but nobody was in the house.
Who acts: man, nobody · What happens: get, see, be · To what, where: nothing, house
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 (man, nobody), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | advcl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 room | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 room | amod |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 room | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beds | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beds | amod |
| 15 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 house | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 house | cc |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 house | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 house | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | man | nothing a big room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | nobody | the house | tree rules |
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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