Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 35
Nanabush picked up all the dead ones and buried them in the ashes to cook.
Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: pick up, bury, cook · To what, where: dead ones, ducks, ashes
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), 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 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ones | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 picked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 buried | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ashes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ashes | det |
| 13 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buried | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cook | mark |
| 15 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 buried | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Nanabush | all dead ones | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | Nanabush not said here | ducks = duck | the ashes | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in ash=Destination | |||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «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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