Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 11
After going down the lake a little way he looked up and saw three bears in a big oak tree.
Who acts: Lake · What happens: go down, look up, see · To what, where: lake, three bears, big oak tree
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 (Lake), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 looked | advcl |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bears | nummod |
| 15 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | amod |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | gerund | Lake not said here | the lake | a little way obl:unmarked | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient lake=Extent | |||
| 2 | look up | past | Lake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Lake not said here | three bears | a big oak tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=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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