Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 37
The Ojibwa woman had to keep the fire going all night.
Who acts: Ojibwa woman, fire · What happens: have, keep, go · To what, where: 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 (Ojibwa woman, fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | compound |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Ojibwa woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the Ojibwa woman not said here | the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the fire not said here | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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