Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.), sentence 5
They were shaped like geese, but were naked and were about as high as a man’s chest and were of brownish red or russet color.
What happens: shape, be · To what, where: birds
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: 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 | 3 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shaped | aux:pass |
| 3 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 geese | case |
| 5 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shaped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 naked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 naked | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 naked | cop |
| 9 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shaped | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 high | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 high | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 naked | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 chest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 high | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 color | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 color | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 color | case |
| 23 | brownish | brownish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 color | amod |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 color | amod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 russet | cc |
| 26 | russet | russet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 red | conj |
| 27 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shaped | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past · passive | birds = bird | like geese | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | naked property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | as a man's chest; about, high property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | of brownish red color | tree rules |
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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