Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 84
The bird got so big that it had no trouble in taking the Indian to the rock.
Who acts: bird, rock, trouble · What happens: get, have, take · To what, where: trouble, Indian
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 (bird, rock, trouble), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 trouble | det |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 taking | mark |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 trouble | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indian | det |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Indian | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the bird | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | rock | no trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | no trouble not said here | the Indian to the rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Theme |
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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