Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 6
This beaver was a great big one (a giant).
Who acts: beaver · What happens: be · To what, where: great big one
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), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 beaver | det |
| 2 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 giant | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 giant | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this beaver | a great big one | tree rules |
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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