Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 13
The wild cat (lynx) was watching the bear whilst the bear was fishing.
Who acts: wild cat, bear · What happens: watch, fish · To what, where: bear
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild cat, bear), 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 | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 lynx | punct |
| 5 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 lynx | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bear | det |
| 10 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watching | obj |
| 11 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 15 fishing | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fishing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fishing | aux |
| 15 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 watching | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | the wild cat | the bear | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fish | past · progressive | the bear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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