Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 24
This “something” would tell the young man some hours before a storm came up that the storm was coming, so that the Indians could make camp.
Who acts: something, storm, Indians · What happens: tell, come up, come, make · To what, where: young man, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, storm, Indians), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 hours | det |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 coming | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 make | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Indians | det |
| 26 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tell | parataxis |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | would | something This | the young man | hour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come up | past | a storm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | the storm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | could | the Indians | camp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Product |
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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