Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), sentence 6
But one of the birds, a diver, opened her eyes a little bit and saw what Nanabush was doing.
Who acts: one, Nanabush · What happens: open, see, do · To what, where: eyes · 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 (one, Nanabush), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 diver | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 diver | det |
| 8 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 diver | punct |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bit | amod |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 doing | obj |
| 19 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 doing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 doing | aux |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | one of the birds | diver's eyes | a little bit obl:unmarked; a diver nsubj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | one of the birds not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | Nanabush | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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