Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 18
The bear was a cub but fought like an old bear, tearing the clothes off the man.
Who acts: bear · What happens: be, fight, tear · To what, where: cub, clothes
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cub | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cub | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cub | det |
| 5 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fought | cc |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cub | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 bear | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bear | amod |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tearing | punct |
| 13 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fought | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clothes | det |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 tearing | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tearing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bear | a cub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the bear not said here | like a old bear | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tear | gerund | the bear not said here | the clothes | off the man | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient off man=Co-Patient |
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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