Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 27
After a little while they saw someone coming in a log canoe, who turned out to be a bad old man.
Who acts: bow, log canoe · What happens: see, come, turn out, be · To what, where: someone, log canoe, bad old man
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 (bow, log canoe), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 someone | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 canoe | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 canoe | det |
| 11 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 canoe | compound |
| 12 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 canoe | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 man | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | bow | someone | after a little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | a log canoe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | |||||
| 3 | turn out | past | a log canoe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a log canoe not said here | a bad old man | tree rules |
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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