Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 26
It did not take them long to do so and to bury them the best way they could.
Who acts: It · What happens: not take, do, bury · To what, where: Indians
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | csubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bury | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bury | mark |
| 12 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bury | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bury | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | It | Indians = indian | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bury | to-infinitive | Indians = indian | the best way obl:unmarked | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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