Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 33
Once, a long time ago, before the white man came to Canada, an Indian struck out through the bush to hunt.
Who acts: white man · What happens: come, strike out, hunt · To what, where: Canada
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 (white man), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Canada | case |
| 14 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bush | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bush | det |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bush | amod |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bush | amod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 struck | compound:prt |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 bush | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bush | det |
| 22 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Canada | appos |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hunt | mark |
| 24 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bush | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the white man | Canada | ago, once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to canada=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | strike out | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | the white man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/30/33/