Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 29
The “something” was shiny and quivering, and nobody knew what it was made out of.
Who acts: something, nobody · What happens: be, quiver, know, make out · To what, where: name
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, nobody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 something | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 shiny | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shiny | cop |
| 6 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quivering | cc |
| 8 | quivering | quiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shiny | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shiny | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 out | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shiny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | something | shiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quiver | gerund | something not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make out | past · passive | name | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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