Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 21
On the fourth day while walking he noticed somebody had been cutting some trees with a very sharp thing.
Who acts: younger, somebody · What happens: walk, notice, cut · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger, somebody), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticed | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 walking | mark |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 noticed | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 cutting | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cutting | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cutting | aux |
| 12 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 noticed | ccomp |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 trees | det |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cutting | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 thing | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 sharp | advmod |
| 18 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | younger = young not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice | past | younger = young | day | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cut | past · perfect · progressive | somebody | some trees | with a sharp thing | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with thing=Instrument |
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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