Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 5
These sturgeon from Sturgeon Lake are descended from a serpent which was cut in two a long time ago, but lived and bred young ones with no tails.
What happens: descend, cut, live, breed · To what, where: sturgeon, serpent, two, young ones
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 sturgeon | det |
| 2 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Lake | case |
| 4 | Sturgeon | Sturgeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lake | compound |
| 5 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sturgeon | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 descended | aux:pass |
| 7 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 descended | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | aux:pass |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 two | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 cut | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 two | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 descended | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bred | cc |
| 24 | bred | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | conj |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ones | amod |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bred | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 tails | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 tails | det |
| 29 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bred | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present · passive | this sturgeon from Sturgeon Lake | a serpent | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · passive | a serpent | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | past | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | breed | past | young ones | with no tails | 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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