Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 34
As soon as the sun went down people could be heard running around all over (spirits or ghosts).
Who acts: sun, people · What happens: go down, hear, run around · To what, where: people, spirits
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 (sun, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 heard | xcomp |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 running | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 running | advmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirits | punct |
| 17 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 running | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 ghosts | cc |
| 19 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spirits | conj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirits | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hear | could · passive | people | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run around | gerund | people not said here | spirits or ghosts | around, over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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