Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 13
He found that he could stay inside the bird in going down to earth again.
Who acts: York · What happens: find, stay, go down · 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 (York), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | ccomp |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stay | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | York | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay | could | York | inside the bird | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside bird=Location | ||||
| 3 | go down | gerund | York not said here | again | to earth; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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