Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.), sentence 2
The old people once went to the Blue Mountains near Collingwood a long time ago.
Who acts: old people · What happens: go · To what, where: Collingwood
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mountains | det |
| 8 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountains | compound |
| 9 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 Collingwood | case |
| 11 | Collingwood | Collingwood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old people | Collingwood | to the Blue Mountains; ago, once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location |
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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