Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 22
The big snail stretched himself across the river and the two boys got across.
Who acts: big snail, two boys · What happens: stretch, get · To what, where: snail, river
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 (big snail, two boys), 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 snail | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snail | amod |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stretched | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 boys | nummod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 14 | across | across | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the big snail | snail | the river | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past | the two boys | across property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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