Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 23
This pleased Nanabush very much, and the Chief Duck went away.
Who acts: Chief Duck · What happens: go away · To what, where: pleased Nanabush
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief Duck), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Nanabush | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nanabush | amod |
| 3 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 Nanabush | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duck | det |
| 9 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Duck | compound |
| 10 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Chief Duck | pleased Nanabush This | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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