Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 2
Once two Indians, a man and his wife, camped near a little lake.
What happens: camp · To what, where: man, little lake
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: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 Indians | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Indians | nummod |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 man | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 camped | punct |
| 11 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lake | amod |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 camped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | participle | a man once two Indians and John's wife not said here | a little lake | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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