Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 7
He will not die, nor will be sick, and is the only man that will live as long as the world lasts.
Who acts: man, only man, world · What happens: not die, be, live, last · To what, where: only man
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 (man, only man, world), 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 | 4 die | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 die | advmod |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sick | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 sick | cc |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sick | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sick | cop |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 die | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sick | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 live | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | aux |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 live | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 lasts | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lasts | nsubj |
| 24 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | future | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | future | sick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the only man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | future | the only man | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | last | present | the world | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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