Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 40
These little men set the lightning at the trees and make the thunder.
Who acts: little men · What happens: set, make · To what, where: lightning, trees, thunder
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 (little 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 men | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lightning | det |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thunder | det |
| 13 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | this little men | the lightning | the trees | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme at tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | this little men not said here | the thunder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thunder=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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