Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 44
When you get home, get two small stones and make them hot, open the box of oil and let it melt on the stones.
Who acts: you, box · What happens: get, make, open, let, melt · To what, where: two small stones, stones, box
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 (you, box), 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 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 stones | nummod |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stones | amod |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 box | det |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 oil | case |
| 19 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 box | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stones | det |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 melt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get | imperative | you not said here | two small stones | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | stones = stone | hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | open | infinitive | the box of oil | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | box | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | melt | infinitive | box not said here | the stones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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