Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 8
They both went out and the little dog began to roll in the snow.
Who acts: dogs, little dog · What happens: go out, begin, roll · To what, where: snow
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 (dogs, little 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 roll | mark |
| 11 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roll | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | dogs = dog | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the little dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roll | to-infinitive | the little dog not said here | the snow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory |
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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