Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), sentence 5
Nanabush seated himself near the door and as the ducks would dance near him he would grab them and twist their necks and throw them behind him (York exemplified this by gestures) and got quite a lot this time.
Who acts: Nanabush, ducks · What happens: seat, dance, grab, twist, throw, exemplify · To what, where: Nanabush, door, ducks, necks, this, lot
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), 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 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 seated | obj |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seated | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dance | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 dance | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducks | det |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dance | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 dance | aux |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seated | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dance | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grab | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 grab | aux |
| 17 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dance | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grab | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twist | cc |
| 20 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grab | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 necks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 twist | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 throw | cc |
| 24 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grab | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 throw | obj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 throw | obl |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 exemplified | punct |
| 29 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 exemplified | compound |
| 30 | exemplified | exemplify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 throw | advcl |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 exemplified | obj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 gestures | case |
| 33 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 exemplified | obl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 exemplified | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 got | cc |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seated | conj |
| 37 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 lot | det:predet |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lot | det |
| 39 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obj |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 time | det |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | Nanabush | Nanabush | the door | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | dance | would | the ducks | near Nanabush | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location | ||||
| 3 | grab | would | Nanabush | ducks = duck | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twist | infinitive | Nanabush not said here | ducks's necks | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | infinitive | Nanabush not said here | ducks = duck | behind Nanabush | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme behind he=Destination | |||
| 6 | exemplify | participle | Nanabush not said here | this | by gestures; York compound | tree rules | |||
| 7 | get | past | Nanabush not said here | quite lot | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=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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