Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 16
The young Thunderbird spread its wings and began to float down through the air.
Who acts: young Thunderbird · What happens: spread, begin, float down · To what, where: wings, air
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 Thunderbird), 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 Thunderbird | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Thunderbird | amod |
| 3 | Thunderbird | thunderbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 float | mark |
| 10 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 float | compound:prt |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 float | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the young Thunderbird | sash's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the young Thunderbird not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | float down | to-infinitive | the young Thunderbird not said here | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory |
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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