Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 11
She went to a big tree and stood at the foot of the tree and rapped, just the same as a person would do on a house door.
Who acts: wife, person · What happens: go, stand, rap, do · To what, where: big tree, foot, same, house door
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, person), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rapped | cc |
| 16 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 same | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 same | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rapped | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 person | det |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 same | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 door | compound |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wife | a big tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | wife not said here | the foot of the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | rap | past | wife not said here | the same | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | would | a person | a house door | vn act-114-1 «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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