Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 8
After a while he saw something ahead, which was a rock, and the big bird lit on the rock and let the man go and flew away again.
Who acts: John, big bird, man · What happens: see, be, lit, let, go, fly away · To what, where: something, rock, man
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, big bird, man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 6 something | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rock | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rock | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rock | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lit | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lit | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lit | nsubj |
| 18 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lit | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 lit | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flew | cc |
| 28 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 flew | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 flew | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | John | something | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a rock | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | the big bird | the rock | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the big bird not said here | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fly away | past | John not said here | again | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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