Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 22
She went out and found the lake and saw the camp, but she could not see anybody, or no signs, or no smoke in the camp.
Who acts: mother · What happens: go out, find, see, not see · To what, where: smoke, lake, camp, anybody
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 18 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 signs | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 signs | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 signs | det |
| 22 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 smoke | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 smoke | cc |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 smoke | det |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 camp | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 camp | det |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smoke | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | mother | no smoke in the camp | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | mother not said here | the lake | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | mother not said here | the camp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer camp=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | mother | anybody | no signs conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=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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