Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 6

There was a little boy who lived with her and who had often watched her through a hole in his blanket when she was dressing herself in this turkey skin, and thought that he would like to try it himself, so he took the turkey skin out of the bag and put it on.

Who acts: little boy, bee, boy · What happens: live, watch, dress, be, like, try · To what, where: bee, hole, turkey skin, 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 (little boy, bee, boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thought	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lived	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 watched	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 watched	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watched	aux
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 watched	advmod
14	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lived	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watched	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 hole	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watched	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 blanket	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 blanket	nmod:poss
21	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hole	nmod
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 dressing	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dressing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dressing	aux
25	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 watched	advcl
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 dressing	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 skin	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 skin	det
29	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skin	compound
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dressing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 like	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 try	mark
39	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 like	xcomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 try	obj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 try	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 took	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	45 took	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 took	nsubj
45	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thought	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 skin	det
47	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 skin	compound
48	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 took	obj
49	out	out	ADP	_	52 bag	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 bag	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bag	det
52	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 took	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 put	cc
54	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 took	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 put	obj
56	on	on	ADP	_	54 put	compound:prt
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a little boy			with bee	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
2	watch	past · perfect · passive		bee	a hole in boy's blanket	who nsubj:pass; often property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
3	dress	past · progressive	bee	bee	this turkey skin		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	is	past				think property	tree rules
5	like	would	boy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	skin		boy obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer himself=Result
7	take	past	boy	the turkey skin	the bag		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme out bag=Initial_Location
8	put on	infinitive	boy not said here	skin			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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. 2.), sentence 6