Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 21
Sometimes when this witch was looking for children at night she carried a light.
Who acts: witch · What happens: look, carry · To what, where: light
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 (witch), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 looking | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 carried | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | this witch | night | for children; sometimes property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for child=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | witch | a light | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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