Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 7
He could not do anything except to remain very still.
Who acts: John · What happens: not do, remain · To what, where: anything
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), 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 | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 still | advmod |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 remain | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | John | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | John not said here | anything not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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