Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 22
Well, I could not do anything only cry, and this bad man came right in front of me and began to mock and cry, and facing the other way showed his buttocks.
Who acts: I, bad man, facing · What happens: not do, cry, come, begin, mock, face · To what, where: anything, front, other way, buttocks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, bad man, facing), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 cry | advmod |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anything | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | parataxis |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 front | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 mock | mark |
| 24 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cry | cc |
| 26 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 mock | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 showed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 showed | cc |
| 29 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 showed | csubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 way | amod |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 facing | obj |
| 33 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 buttocks | nmod:poss |
| 35 | buttocks | buttock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 showed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | this bad man | front of me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | this bad man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | mock | to-infinitive | this bad man not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | infinitive | this bad man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | face | gerund | the other way | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination | |||||
| 8 | show | past | facing | child's buttocks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buttock=Recipient |
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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