Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 19

One day they all went out but one bad man who stayed in camp to watch me.

Who acts: man, one bad man · What happens: go out, stay, watch · To what, where: one bad man, camp, me

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one bad 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 man	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 man	nummod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 camp	case
14	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 watch	mark
16	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stayed	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 watch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go out	past	man	one bad man		day	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	one bad man		camp		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location
3	watch	to-infinitive	one bad man not said here	me			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 19