Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 37
Both these men were fine little fellows, all black and shining, and are called Nim-Mah-Kie (Thunder).
Who acts: men · What happens: be, shine, call · To what, where: fine little fellows · 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 (men), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 fellows | cc:preconj |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fellows | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellows | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellows | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellows | amod |
| 7 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 black | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 black | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellows | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shining | cc |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 black | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fellows | acl |
| 17 | Nim | Nim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mah | punct |
| 19 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Nim | appos |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kie | punct |
| 21 | Kie | Kie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Nim | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Thunder | punct |
| 23 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Thunder | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this men | fine little fellows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | this men not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | fine little fellows not said here | Nim and Kie xcomp; Thunder xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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