Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), sentence 7
She made for the door and told all the ducks to run away.
Who acts: diver · What happens: make, tell, run away · To what, where: ducks · 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 (diver), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ducks | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducks | det |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | diver | for the door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for door=Asset | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | diver not said here | all ducks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | diver not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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