Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 78
He heard some bird up in the air and on looking up he saw a hawk.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear up, look up, see · To what, where: bird, air, hawk
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 heard | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 looking | mark |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looking | compound:prt |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hawk | det |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear up | past | King | some bird | the air | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look up | gerund | King not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | King | a hawk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=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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