Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 28
The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree, also the “Monster,” were drawn by Wash-a-ghe-zik.
Who acts: two little shiny men, Wash · What happens: set, draw · To what, where: lightning, tree, sketch
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 (two little shiny men, Wash), 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 sketch | det |
| 2 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 7 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sketch | nmod |
| 9 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 men | acl |
| 10 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 setting | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 setting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Monster | punct |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 Monster | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Monster | det |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Monster | punct |
| 18 | Monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sketch | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sketch | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sketch | punct |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawn | aux:pass |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Wash | case |
| 24 | Wash | Wash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 drawn | obl |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 zik | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 zik | det |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 a | punct |
| 28 | ghe | ghe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 zik | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ghe | punct |
| 30 | zik | zik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Wash | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | the two little shiny men not said here | lightning | the tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme at tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | Wash | the sketch of the two little shiny men and the Monster | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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