Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 9
The boy lit on the ground and the people rushed over and took off the skin and found that it was only a boy.
Who acts: boy, skin · What happens: lit, rush over, take off, find, be · To what, where: boy, ground, skin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, skin), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 boy | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 people | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ground | conj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 rushed | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushed | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 boy | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 boy | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 boy | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 boy | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | participle | the boy not said here | the ground and the people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush over | past | the boy | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | the boy not said here | the skin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the boy not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | skin | a boy | tree rules |
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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