Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 12
This is the time that Nanabush is poking his fire or making his fire.
Who acts: This, Nanabush · What happens: be, poke, make, fire · To what, where: time, fire
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 poking | mark |
| 6 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 poking | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 poking | aux |
| 8 | poking | poke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fire | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poking | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 making | cc |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 poking | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | poke | present · progressive | Nanabush | Nanabush's fire | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Nanabush not said here | Nanabush's fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | fire | Nanabush | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fire | Nanabush | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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