Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 13

He acted so strangely and shook his camp so much that he so frightened the others that they were afraid to go near him and so left him alone to die.

Who acts: camp, others · What happens: act, shake, frighten, be, go, leave · To what, where: camp, others

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 (camp, others), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 acted	nsubj
2	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 strangely	advmod
4	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	2 acted	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shook	cc
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 acted	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 camp	nmod:poss
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shook	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	6 shook	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 frightened	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 frightened	nsubj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shook	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 frightened	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 afraid	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 afraid	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	cop
20	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 others	amod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 afraid	xcomp
23	near	near	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 acted	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	obj
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 die	mark
31	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	past	camp		strangely property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	camp not said here	camp's camp		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent camp=Patient
3	frighten	past	camp	the others		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
4	is	past	others = other		afraid property	tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	others = other not said here		near camp	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location
6	leave	past	camp not said here	camp	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	die	to-infinitive	camp not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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, The Social Problem., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 13