Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 4
The two young people got married and lived for a little while when the young wife took sick and died.
Who acts: young wife · What happens: marry, live, take, die · To what, where: two young people
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 (young wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lived | cc |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | amod |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 took | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | advcl |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 took | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 died | cc |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the two young people | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | live | past | while | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the young wife | sick property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | die | past | the young wife not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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