Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 50
There was nobody living there this time so they sat down and after a little while he said, “Do you see that point up there?
Who acts: nobody, people, husband, you, that · What happens: be, live, sit down, say, see, point up · 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 (nobody, people, husband, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 nobody | acl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 living | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sat | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 while | amod |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 point | nsubj |
| 25 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | ccomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 point | compound:prt |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 point | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nobody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | there | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | people | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | husband | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | point up in a quote | present | that | there | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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