Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 13
He saw some big fish and then went home and told his people that he saw a lot of fish.
Who acts: fish · What happens: see, go, tell · To what, where: big fish, people, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The People Who Became Serpents.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 fish | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 went | advmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lot | det |
| 18 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lot | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fish | some big fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | fish not said here | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | fish not said here | fish's people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | past | fish | a lot of fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
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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