Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 7
He looked at his gun which was straight, and he thought if he could bend his gun he might get them all.
Who acts: Nanabush, gun · What happens: look, think, bend, get · To what, where: 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 (Nanabush, gun), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 gun | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gun | acl:relcl |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 was | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 bend | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bend | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bend | aux |
| 16 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gun | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bend | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Nanabush | at Nanabush's gun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Nanabush | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bend a condition, not said to happen | could | Nanabush | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | might | Nanabush's gun | ducks = duck | Nanabush nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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