Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 4
She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them and exposed her anus in contempt and otherwise made fun of them.
Who acts: woman, Ojibwas · What happens: see, come, turn back, expose, make · To what, where: Ojibwas, woman, anus, contempt, fun
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Ojibwas), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ojibwas | det |
| 4 | Ojibwas | ojibwa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Ojibwas | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 exposed | cc |
| 13 | exposed | expose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 anus | nmod:poss |
| 15 | anus | anus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exposed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 contempt | case |
| 17 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exposed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 19 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 exposed | conj |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fun | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | woman | the Ojibwas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ojibwa=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the Ojibwas not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn back | past | woman not said here | woman | Ojibwas = ojibwa | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to they=Destination | |||
| 4 | expose | past | woman not said here | woman's anus | contempt | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anus=Topic | |||
| 5 | make | participle | woman not said here | fun of Ojibwas | otherwise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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