Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 45
Cover yourself and the boxes with blankets.
Who acts: you · What happens: cover · To what, where: yourself
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), 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 | Cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Cover | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 boxes | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boxes | det |
| 5 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 yourself | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 blankets | case |
| 7 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cover | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | imperative | you not said here | yourself | with blankets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination with blanket=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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