Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 5
One day when all the people were having a bee to hoe corn she went to the bee, leaving her turkey skin in her bag (medicine bag) at her home.
Who acts: people, bee · What happens: have, hoe, go, leave · To what, where: bee, corn, turkey skin, bag
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 (people, bee), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 having | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 people | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 having | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 having | aux |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hoe | mark |
| 12 | hoe | hoe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 having | xcomp |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoe | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 corn | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bee | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bee | det |
| 18 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaving | punct |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 having | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 skin | compound |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bag | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bag | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obl |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 bag | punct |
| 28 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bag | compound |
| 29 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bag | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 bag | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · progressive | all people | a bee | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hoe | to-infinitive | a bee not said here | corn | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | bee | corn not said here | to the bee | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corn=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund | bee's turkey skin | bee's bag | at bee's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme in bag=Location |
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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