Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 11

This young bird was very big and heavy (as York expressed it, “it would weigh easy a ton”).

Who acts: young bird, York, bird · What happens: be, express, weigh · To what, where: bird, easy ton · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young bird, York, bird), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bird	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heavy	cc
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 expressed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 expressed	mark
11	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 expressed	nsubj
12	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 expressed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weigh	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 weigh	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 weigh	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 weigh	aux
18	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 expressed	parataxis
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ton	amod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ton	det
21	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weigh	obj
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 weigh	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 expressed	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this young bird		big property	tree rules
2	be		this young bird not said here			tree rules
3	express	past	York	bird		tree rules
4	weigh in a quote	would	bird	a easy ton		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 11