Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 8
He never works and always has plenty to eat, and lots of tobacco which he keeps in a skunk-skin bag.
Who acts: man, tobacco · What happens: not work, have, eat, keep · To what, where: lots, plenty, skin bag
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, tobacco), 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 | 3 works | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 works | advmod |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 has | cc |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 has | advmod |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 works | conj |
| 7 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 plenty | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lots | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lots | cc |
| 12 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 works | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tobacco | case |
| 14 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lots | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tobacco | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bag | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bag | det |
| 20 | skunk | skunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skin | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 skunk | punct |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bag | compound |
| 23 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 works | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present | man | lots of tobacco | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | man not said here | plenty | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | man not said here | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | tobacco | a skin bag | man nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bag=Location |
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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