Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 34
They came to a big hill and he asked the boy to go for a sleigh ride down the hill.
Who acts: bow, man · What happens: come, ask, go · To what, where: big hill, boy, hill
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, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hill | amod |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ride | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ride | det |
| 16 | sleigh | sleigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ride | compound |
| 17 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | bow | a big hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man | the boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the hill | for a sleigh ride | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down hill=Initial_Location |
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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