Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 28
They looked in the camp but there was nobody home, then they went down to the lake and saw the others sunning themselves the same as other snakes.
Who acts: wife, nobody, others · What happens: look, be, go down, see, sun · To what, where: others, wife
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 (wife, nobody, others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 was | nsubj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 others | det |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | sunning | sun | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 others | acl |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 sunning | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 same | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sunning | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 snakes | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 snakes | amod |
| 29 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sunning | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | wife | in the camp | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in camp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nobody | there | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go down | past | wife | then | to the lake; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | see | past | wife not said here | the others | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sun | gerund | the others not said here | wife | as other 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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