Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 36
When he got them all fixed he lay down and told his anus to watch.
Who acts: Nanabush, ducks · What happens: get, fix, lie down, tell, watch · To what, where: anus · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fixed | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 anus | nmod:poss |
| 13 | anus | anus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 watch | mark |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Nanabush | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fix | past | ducks = duck | all property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie down | past | Nanabush | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Nanabush not said here | Nanabush's anus | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anus=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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