Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 3
He placed his wife to watch for the beaver and she sat on a rock watching for the beaver to come out.
Who acts: Nanabush, beaver · What happens: place, watch, sit, come out · To what, where: wife, rock
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, beaver), 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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 watch | mark |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 placed | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 beaver | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beaver | det |
| 9 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 rock | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sat | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 beaver | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beaver | det |
| 19 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 watching | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Nanabush | Nanabush's wife | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | for the beaver | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for beaver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | beaver | a rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | beaver not said here | for the beaver | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for beaver=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come out | to-infinitive | beaver not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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