Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 10
They took the two bears in their canoe and started for home.
Who acts: bear · What happens: take, start · To what, where: two bears, canoe
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 bears | nummod |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | bear | the two bears | bear's canoe | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bear=Value in canoe=Location | |||
| 2 | start | past | bear not said here | for home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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