Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 38
They climbed up in the air like they were climbing ladders, and disappeared.
Who acts: fellows · What happens: climb up, climb, disappear · To what, where: air, ladders
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 (fellows), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 climbed | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 climbing | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 climbing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 climbing | aux |
| 10 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 climbed | advcl |
| 11 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 climbing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 disappeared | cc |
| 14 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | fellows = fellow | the air | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | climb | past · progressive | fellows = fellow | ladders | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | fellows = fellow not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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