Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 25
The two boys went on and came to a lake where nobody was to be seen only themselves.
Who acts: two boys · What happens: go on, come, see · To what, where: lake, nobody
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 (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 boys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 boys | nummod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 seen | advmod |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 themselves | advmod |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 seen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the two boys | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the two boys not said here | a lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the two boys not said here | nobody | children = child obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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