Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 6
The next morning early they heard something across the narrows; they looked and saw a great, big, black bear.
Who acts: bear · What happens: hear, look, see · To what, where: something, narrows, great big black bear
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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 narrows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 narrows | det |
| 10 | narrows | narrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bear | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bear | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bear | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 big | punct |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bear | amod |
| 22 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | bear | something | the narrows | morning | early property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |
| 2 | look | past | bear | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | bear not said here | a great big black bear | 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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