Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 6
This kept on for a good many days.
What happens: keep on · To what, where: This
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: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 kept | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | participle · passive | This | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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