Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 12
His eyes stuck out and he chewed his tongue and rolled around his camp in terrible agony.
Who acts: eyes, camp · What happens: stick out, chew, roll · To what, where: tongue, camp
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, camp), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stuck | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chewed | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chewed | nsubj |
| 7 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chewed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rolled | cc |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chewed | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 camp | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 camp | nmod:poss |
| 14 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 agony | case |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 agony | amod |
| 17 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | past | camp's eyes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | chew | past | camp | camp's tongue | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll | past | camp not said here | camp's camp | in terrible agony | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme around camp=Source in agony=Trajectory |
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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