Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 57
In olden times people used to believe in feeding the dead by burning some bread and meat (food) over the grave, and this was what brought the parents back to the island at this particular time.
Who acts: people, this · What happens: use, believe, feed, burn, be · To what, where: dead, bread, grave
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 (people, this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | nsubj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 feeding | mark |
| 9 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 believe | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dead | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feeding | obj |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 burning | mark |
| 13 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feeding | advcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bread | det |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meat | cc |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bread | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 food | punct |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meat | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 food | punct |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 grave | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grave | det |
| 23 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brought | cop |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 parents | det |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 brought | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 brought | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 island | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 island | det |
| 35 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 time | det |
| 38 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | people | time | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | people not said here | the dead | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | people not said here | some bread and meat | the grave | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | this | time | to the island; what nsubj; the parents obj; bring property | tree rules |
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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