Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 35
This old man was the man who sang at the dance so he started the dance a little after dark.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: be, sing, start · To what, where: man, dance
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 (old man, man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dance | det |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 started | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dance | det |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 started | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 dark | case |
| 20 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 started | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this old man | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the man | the dance | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dance=Location | ||||
| 3 | start | past | the man | the dance | after dark | a little obl:unmarked | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
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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