Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 41
There were two little boxes, one for the wife, and another in which was an oil of some kind.
Who acts: two little boxes, another · What happens: be · To what, where: oil
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 little boxes, another), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boxes | nummod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boxes | amod |
| 5 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boxes | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 oil | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 oil | cc |
| 13 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 18 oil | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 another | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 oil | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 oil | det |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kind | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 kind | det |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oil | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two little boxes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | another in a oil | a oil | of some kind | 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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