Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 5
The girl’s mother did not like this because the young man had good luck always.
Who acts: mother, young man · What happens: not like, have · To what, where: this, good luck
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, young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 like | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | advcl |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 had | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the girl's mother | this | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the young man | good luck | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient |
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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