Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 17
I had a dream in my early days that no gun could hurt me, and if my dream is no good I won’t come back.”
Who acts: I, gun, dream, my · What happens: have, hurt, be, not come back, dream · To what, where: dream, early days
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, gun, dream, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 days | nmod:poss |
| 7 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hurt | obj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 gun | det |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 days | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 good | mark |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dream | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 good | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 good | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 come | advcl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | parataxis |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a dream | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | |||
| 2 | hurt | could | no gun | my early days | me obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer i=Result | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | my dream | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not come back | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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