Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 4

And in this bay there were a lot of ducks sitting along the shore, and Nanabush would like to kill them all with one shot.

Who acts: lot, ducks, Nanabush · What happens: be, sit, like, kill · To what, where: bay, shore, ducks

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 (lot, ducks, Nanabush), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 were	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bay	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bay	det
4	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 like	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lot	nmod
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ducks	acl
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
17	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 like	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 kill	mark
21	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kill	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 shot	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 shot	nummod
26	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kill	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a lot of ducks		this bay; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Location
2	sit	gerund	ducks not said here		the shore		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along shore=Location
3	like	would	Nanabush				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nanabush not said here	ducks = duck		with one shot	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with shot=Instrument

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 4