Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 3
He saw a nice bay, round (curved) all along to the end which we all know bays are not straight.
Who acts: Nanabush, we, bays · What happens: see, curve, know, not be · To what, where: nice bay, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nanabush, we, bays), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bay | det |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bay | amod |
| 5 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 curved | punct |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 curved | advmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 curved | punct |
| 9 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 curved | punct |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 along | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 curved | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curved | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 know | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 end | acl:relcl |
| 20 | bays | bay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 straight | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 straight | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 straight | advmod |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Nanabush | a nice bay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bay=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | curve | participle | Nanabush not said here | to the end | along, round property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | |||
| 3 | know | present | we | the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | bays | straight property | tree rules |
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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