Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 7
He followed her for a long time but could not get near enough to catch her, so he went on till night came.
Who acts: husband, night · What happens: follow, not get, catch, go on, come · To what, where: wife
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 (husband, night), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 followed | conj |
| 12 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 near | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | husband | wife | time | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | not get | could | husband not said here | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | husband not said here | wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | husband | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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