Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 53
The canoes came out in the lake straight for the island and when they came near they stopped.
Who acts: canoes · What happens: come out, come, stop · To what, where: lake
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 (canoes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canoes | det |
| 2 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 island | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | advcl |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the canoes | the lake | for the island; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | canoes = canoe | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | canoes = canoe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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