Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 12
The man’s dog went out to meet this one and conquered it.
Who acts: dog · What happens: go out, meet, conquer · To what, where: one, lake
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Little Dog Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 conquered | cc |
| 12 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 conquered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the man's dog | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the man's dog not said here | this one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | conquer | past | the man's dog not said here | lake | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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