Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 17
The young men put her overboard at what is now Ground Hog Point, which took its name from her, for she was called “Kuk-oh-chees,” “The Ground Hog.”
Who acts: young men, Hog Point, canoe · What happens: put, grind, take, call, name · To what, where: woman, Hog Point, name · 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 men, Hog Point, canoe), 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 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 11 Ground | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 Ground | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Ground | aux:pass |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 Ground | advmod |
| 11 | Ground | grind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | advcl |
| 12 | Hog | Hog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Point | compound |
| 13 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ground | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Point | acl:relcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 called | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 took | conj |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Kuk | punct |
| 27 | Kuk | Kuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Kuk | punct |
| 29 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 31 chees | discourse |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 oh | punct |
| 31 | chees | chee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Kuk | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ” | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Kuk | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Hog | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Hog | det |
| 36 | Ground | Ground | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Hog | compound |
| 37 | Hog | Hog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the young men | woman | overboard property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 2 | grind | present · passive | Hog Point | now | what nsubj:pass | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | Hog Point | canoe's name | from woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from she=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | call | past · passive | woman | the Ground Hog obl; Kuk and chees xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | name | canoe | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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