Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 7
Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any.
Who acts: sturgeon · What happens: hear, jump, not catch · To what, where: sturgeon, any
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 (sturgeon), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | aux |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 sturgeon | det |
| 4 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sturgeon | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 caught | advmod |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 heard | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | this sturgeon | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sturgeon=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | jump | gerund | this sturgeon not said here | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not catch | past · perfect | any | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
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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