Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.), sentence 6
By and by they began to grow pin-feathers and get big.
Who acts: birds · What happens: begin, grow, get · To what, where: pin feathers
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 (birds), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 and | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 began | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feathers | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pin | punct |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | conj |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | birds = bird | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | pin feathers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feather=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | birds = bird not said here | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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