Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 38
When Nanabush woke up he went to work and looked for the cooked ducks, which were gone.
Who acts: Nanabush, cooked ducks · What happens: wake up, go, look, cook, be · To what, where: work
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, cooked 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 woke | advmod |
| 2 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ducks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ducks | det |
| 13 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ducks | amod |
| 14 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ducks | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Nanabush | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Nanabush | work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Nanabush not said here | for the cooked ducks | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for duck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | the cooked ducks | gone property | tree rules |
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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