Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 24
After a while some one tried to speak inside the camp and said, “We have eaten a fish of some kind and I am sure it was a big snake; we have all got to be snakes.”
Who acts: one, We, I, camp · What happens: try, speak, say, eat, be, get · To what, where: camp, fish, big snake, snakes · 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 (one, We, I, camp), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speak | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eaten | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eaten | punct |
| 16 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 eaten | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eaten | aux |
| 18 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eaten | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kind | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 kind | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sure | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 sure | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sure | cop |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eaten | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 snake | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 snake | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 snake | det |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 snake | amod |
| 32 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 got | punct |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 got | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 got | aux |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 got | advmod |
| 37 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 tried | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 snakes | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 snakes | cop |
| 40 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 got | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 got | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | some one | while | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | some one not said here | the camp | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | some one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | present · perfect | We | a fish of some kind | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | camp | a big snake | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | present · perfect | we | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | snakes | 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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