Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 11
If you look sometimes in the north sky you will see the sky white at night.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see · To what, where: sky
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 look | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sky | compound |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sky | amod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | you | in the north sky; sometimes property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sky=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | the sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=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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