Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 6
He fainted (became unconscious) and dropped on the ice, and the next thing he knew he found himself sitting inside a big bird’s hand (or claws) with all his game, beaver, ice chisel and bag.
Who acts: John, next thing · What happens: faint, become, drop, know, find, sit · To what, where: ice, next thing, John, ice chisel, hand
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 (John, next thing), 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 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | conj |
| 5 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dropped | cc |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fainted | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ice | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 found | xcomp |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 bird | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 claws | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 claws | cc |
| 31 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hand | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 claws | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 game | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 game | det:predet |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 game | nmod:poss |
| 36 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 beaver | punct |
| 38 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 game | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 chisel | punct |
| 40 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 chisel | compound |
| 41 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 bag | cc |
| 43 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 chisel | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | John | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | become | past | John not said here | unconscious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drop | participle | John not said here | the ice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | know | past | John | the next thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the next thing | John | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sit | gerund | John not said here | ice chisel and bag | a big bird's hand | with John's game and beaver | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside hand=Location |
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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