Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 21
Then he took my baby and ran the stick into him (through the anus) and roasted him in the big fire.
Who acts: child · What happens: take, run, roast · To what, where: baby, stick, child
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 (child), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 baby | nmod:poss |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 anus | punct |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 anus | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 anus | det |
| 15 | anus | anus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | parataxis |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 anus | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 roasted | cc |
| 18 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 roasted | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fire | amod |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roasted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | child | my baby | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | past | child not said here | the stick | into child; the anus parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into he=Result | |||
| 3 | roast | past | child not said here | child | in the big fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in fire=Instrument |
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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