Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 41
He started off and went through where there were a lot of little trees, going right over them.
Who acts: Nanabush, lot · What happens: start off, go, be
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, lot), 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 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 started | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 where | case |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 were | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lot | det |
| 11 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trees | amod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 them | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | Nanabush | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Nanabush not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a lot of little trees | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | Nanabush not said here | over lots = lot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial_Location |
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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