Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 10
When the smoke cleared away there were no ducks to be seen dead or alive.
Who acts: smoke, ducks · What happens: clear away, be, see
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, ducks), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cleared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smoke | det |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleared | nsubj |
| 4 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 were | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 cleared | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 ducks | det |
| 9 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 were | advcl |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seen | xcomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 alive | cc |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dead | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear away | past | the smoke | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no ducks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | no ducks not said here | dead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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