Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 8
The man thought that he would watch her, so he went away one morning, but went only a little way and watched the camp.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, watch, go away, go · To what, where: mother, little way, camp
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 watch | aux |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 morning | nummod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 watched | cc |
| 24 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 watched | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | watch | would | man | mother | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | man | morning | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | a little way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch | past | the camp | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=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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