Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 3
One day the old man went out to fish through the ice, and while fishing he saw a queer-looking fish.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: go out, fish, see, look · To what, where: ice, fishing
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fish | mark |
| 9 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ice | det |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fish | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 fishing | mark |
| 16 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fish | det |
| 20 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looking | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 queer | punct |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 fish | amod |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old man | day | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fish | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the ice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent through ice=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | fishing | a looking fish obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | queer compound | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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