Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 37

He went to sleep and it happened to be that there was a lion close by who ate all the ducks.

Who acts: Nanabush, it · What happens: go, sleep, happen, be, eat · To what, where: ducks

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, it), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happened	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	15 close	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 close	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 was	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 close	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lion	det
14	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl:unmarked
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happened	advcl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 ate	mark
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 close	advcl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 ducks	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ducks	det
21	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ate	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nanabush			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	Nanabush not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive			a lion obl:unmarked; close property	tree rules
5	eat	past		all ducks	who nsubj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 37