Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 2
In the old days people used to have faith in their dogs.
Who acts: people · What happens: use, have · To what, where: faith
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 (people), 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 | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | obl |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dogs | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | people | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | people not said here | faith | in people's dogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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