Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 20
This bad man made a big fire and went out and cut a good-sized stick.
Who acts: bad man · What happens: make, go out, cut, size · To what, where: big fire, sized stick
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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fire | amod |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stick | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sized | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 16 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stick | amod |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this bad man | a big fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | this bad man not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | this bad man not said here | a sized stick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stick=Product | ||||
| 4 | size | participle | tree rules |
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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