Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 3
The Rat wanted to trade tails, very badly, but the Beaver didn’t care enough about trading, but at last he traded.
Who acts: Rat, Beaver · What happens: want, trade, not care · To what, where: tails, enough, last
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 (Rat, Beaver), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 trade | mark |
| 5 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trade | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 badly | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 badly | advmod |
| 9 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 trade | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 care | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 care | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Beaver | det |
| 13 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 care | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 care | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 care | advmod |
| 16 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | conj |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 care | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 trading | case |
| 19 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enough | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 traded | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 traded | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 traded | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 traded | nsubj |
| 25 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Rat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trade not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | tails | badly property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 3 | not care | past · do-support | the Beaver | enough about trading | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trade | past | Rat | last | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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