Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 15

When about half way home the young man at the stern heard a bee humming overhead and looking up he saw the bee enter the woman’s ear into her head.

Who acts: young man, bee, Atherley · What happens: hear, hum, look up, see, enter · To what, where: bee, ear, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, bee, Atherley), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 way	det:predet
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 way	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 stern	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stern	det
11	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bee	det
14	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	humming	hum	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 bee	acl
16	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	15 humming	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
18	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 humming	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 looking	compound:prt
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bee	det
23	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enter	nsubj
24	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saw	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ear	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 woman	case
28	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enter	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enter	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the young man at the stern	a bee		about half way	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus
2	hum	gerund	a bee not said here			overhead property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
3	look up	gerund	a bee not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	Atherley				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	enter	infinitive	the bee	the woman's ear	woman's head		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 15