Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 44
They have underground passages from the hills to the water, and can sometimes be seen early in the morning.
Who acts: monsters · What happens: have, see · To what, where: underground passages, hills
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 (monsters), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passages | amod |
| 4 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passages | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hills | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 seen | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | parataxis |
| 17 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 seen | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | monsters = monster | underground passages | the hills to the water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | can · passive | morning | early, sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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