Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 4
She heard her man calling for her, he had killed the beaver.
Who acts: beaver, man · What happens: hear, call, kill · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (beaver, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 man | nmod:poss |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 calling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heard | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beaver | det |
| 13 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | beaver | beaver's man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | beaver's man not said here | for beaver | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | man | the beaver obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer beaver=Result |
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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