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Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), sentence 4

Before the dance started he told the ducks that they had to keep their eyes closed when they danced and had to dance around the middle of the camp.

Who acts: Nanabush, ducks, eyes · What happens: start, tell, have, keep, close, dance · To what, where: ducks, eyes, middle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, ducks, eyes), 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

casedetoblnsubjccompdetobjobjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompnmod:possobjxcompadvmodnsubjadvclccconjmarkxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootBeforeADPtheDETdanceNOUNstartedVERBhePRONtoldVERBtheDETducksNOUNthatPRONtheyPRONhadVERBtoPARTkeepVERBtheirPRONeyesNOUNclosedVERBwhenADVtheyPRONdancedVERBandCCONJhadVERBtoPARTdanceVERBaroundADPtheDETmiddleNOUNofADPtheDETcampNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BeforebeforeADP_3 dancecase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 dancedet
3dancedanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 startedobl
4startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 toldnsubj
6toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 startedccomp
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 ducksdet
8ducksduckNOUNNumber=Plur6 toldobj
9thatthatPRONPronType=Rel11 hadobj
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 ducksacl:relcl
12totoPART_13 keepmark
13keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf11 hadxcomp
14theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 eyesnmod:poss
15eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur13 keepobj
16closedcloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 keepxcomp
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 dancedadvmod
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 dancednsubj
19danceddanceVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 closedadvcl
20andandCCONJ_21 hadcc
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 dancedconj
22totoPART_23 dancemark
23dancedanceVERBVerbForm=Inf21 hadxcomp
24aroundaroundADP_26 middlecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 middledet
26middlemiddleNOUNNumber=Sing23 danceobl
27ofofADP_29 campcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 campdet
29campcampNOUNNumber=Sing26 middlenmod
30..PUNCT_4 startedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1startpastbefore the dancevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2tell speech: assertpastNanabushthe ducksvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient
3havepastducks = duckthe duckstree rules
4keepto-infinitivethe ducks not said hereducks's eyestree rules
5closeparticipleducks's eyes not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6dancepastducks = duckvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7havepastducks = duck not said heretree rules
8danceto-infinitiveducks = duck not said herethe middle of the campvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around middle=Location

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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