Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 45
In small lakes and bays of larger lakes they move around with great swiftness, forcing the weeds and floating sticks, etc., up high on the shore, similar to swirling your hand around in a wash basin.
Who acts: monsters · What happens: move around, force, float, swirl around · To what, where: small lakes, weeds, sticks, hand, wash basin
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 lakes | case |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lakes | amod |
| 3 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 move | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bays | cc |
| 5 | bays | bay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lakes | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lakes | case |
| 7 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lakes | amod |
| 8 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bays | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 move | nsubj |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 move | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 swiftness | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swiftness | amod |
| 14 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 move | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forcing | punct |
| 16 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 move | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 weeds | det |
| 18 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forcing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 floating | cc |
| 20 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 forcing | conj |
| 21 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 floating | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 etc. | punct |
| 23 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 16 forcing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shore | punct |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 high | advmod |
| 26 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 shore | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 move | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 similar | punct |
| 31 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shore | amod |
| 32 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 33 swirling | mark |
| 33 | swirling | swirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 similar | advcl |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 swirling | obj |
| 36 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 swirling | compound:prt |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 basin | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 basin | det |
| 39 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 basin | compound |
| 40 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 swirling | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move around | present | monsters = monster | small lakes and bays of larger lakes | with great swiftness; on the shore; around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in lake=Source on shore=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | force | gerund | monsters = monster not said here | the weeds | etc. conj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Recipient | |||
| 3 | float | gerund | monsters = monster not said here | sticks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Agent | ||||
| 4 | swirl around | gerund | monsters = monster not said here | your hand | a wash basin | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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