Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 8

While looking at the dead bear they heard another one coming down to drink, near where they were standing.

Who acts: bear, one · What happens: look, hear, come down, drink, stand · To what, where: one

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, one), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 bear	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bear	acl:relcl
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 one	acl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 coming	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 coming	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 standing	punct
16	near	near	ADP	_	20 standing	mark
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 standing	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 standing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 drink	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund			at the dead bear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bear=Theme
2	hear	past	bear	another one		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	come down	gerund	another one not said here		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive	another one not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past · progressive	bear			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/8/

🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 8