Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 30
He told them, “The time is now on” and all the ducks started to come in dancing with their eyes closed.
Who acts: Nanabush, ducks, eyes · What happens: tell, start, come, dance, close · To what, where: ducks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nanabush, ducks, eyes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 on | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 on | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ducks | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducks | det |
| 15 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 started | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 dancing | mark |
| 20 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 come | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 closed | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 closed | nsubj |
| 24 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dancing | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Nanabush | ducks = duck | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | all ducks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | all ducks not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | all ducks not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | close | participle | ducks's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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