Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 46
You listen till you hear her speak and then open the box.
Who acts: You, sun · What happens: listen, hear, speak, open · To what, where: box · Speech: someone speaks here
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, sun), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 listen | nsubj |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 open | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 open | advmod |
| 10 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 speak | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 open | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | You | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | sun | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | sun not said here | the box | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=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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