Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 7
The younger was busy in looking after the venison, cutting it up and drying it.
What happens: be, look, cut up, dry · To what, where: venison
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: 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 younger | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 busy | advcl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 venison | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 venison | det |
| 9 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cutting | punct |
| 11 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 looking | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cutting | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 cutting | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drying | cc |
| 15 | drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cutting | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | busy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | after the venison | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cut up | gerund | venison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 4 | dry | gerund | venison | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
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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