Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 9
The man saw two young ones (young Thunderbirds) coming towards him, and when one of these got near enough it opened its mouth wide.
Who acts: man, two young ones, one, bird · What happens: see, come, get, open · To what, where: two young ones, mouth
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 (man, two young ones, one, bird), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ones | nummod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thunderbirds | punct |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Thunderbirds | amod |
| 9 | Thunderbirds | thunderbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ones | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thunderbirds | punct |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 coming | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 got | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 got | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 these | case |
| 19 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 opened | parataxis |
| 21 | near | near | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obj |
| 27 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 24 opened | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the man | two young ones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | two young ones not said here | towards John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | participle | one of these | enough, near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | open | past | bird | bird's mouth | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=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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