Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 26
The big boy made a little bow and arrow for his little brother.
Who acts: big boy · What happens: make · To what, where: little bow
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 boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bow | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bow | amod |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrow | cc |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bow | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the big boy | a little bow and arrow | for boy's little brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bow=Product for brother=Beneficiary |
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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