Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 4
A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away back in the woods where nobody else was to be seen.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: be, live, see · To what, where: camp, nobody
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 (two brothers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 brothers | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 camp | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 camp | det |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 living | obl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 living | advmod |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 living | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 living | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 seen | advmod |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 nobody | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 seen | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 woods | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two brothers | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | two brothers not said here | a camp | in the woods; away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location | |||
| 3 | see | past · passive | two brothers not said here | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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