Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 98
They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down in the water about a hundred yards from shore.
Who acts: Indians, bird · What happens: get, have, come down · To what, where: hundred yards, water
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 (Indians, bird), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | advcl |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 got | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 hundred | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 yards | nummod |
| 22 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 shore | case |
| 24 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yards | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Indians = indian | to shore result; close property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the bird | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Indians = indian not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come down | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | hundred yards from shore | the water | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
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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