Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 23
I grabbed his privates and pulled all I could, and he fell down and I got up and rolled him to the fire and burnt him.
Who acts: I, child · What happens: grab, pull, fall down, get up, roll, burnt · To what, where: privates, child, fire
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 privates | nmod:poss |
| 4 | privates | private | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grabbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pulled | cc |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | conj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 could | det |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pulled | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rolled | cc |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burnt | cc |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 burnt | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | I | child's privates | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent private=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | I not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall down | past | child | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | roll | past | I not said here | child | the fire | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fire=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | burnt | past | I not said here | child | 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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