Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 42
He twisted around and looked at the little trees which were red with his blood and said, “In future people will call those trees red willows.”
Who acts: Nanabush, little trees · What happens: twist around, look, be, say, call · To what, where: trees · 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, little trees), 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 twisted | nsubj |
| 2 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 twisted | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 twisted | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 red | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 red | cop |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 blood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 red | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 twisted | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | obl |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 call | aux |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 willows | amod |
| 28 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist around | past | Nanabush | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Nanabush not said here | at the little trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the little trees | with Nanabush's blood; red property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | call in a quote | future | that trees | in future people; red willows obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme willow=Result |
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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