Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 3
She disguised herself in a turkey’s skin when she wished to fly.
Who acts: witch · What happens: disguise, wish, fly · To what, where: witch
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.). 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 disguised | nsubj |
| 2 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 disguised | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 turkey | det |
| 6 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 turkey | case |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disguised | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 wished | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disguised | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fly | mark |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | witch | witch | in a turkey's skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination in skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | past | witch | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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