Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 14
His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain.
Who acts: actions, man, camp · What happens: continue, die, act
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 (actions, man, 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 actions | nmod:poss |
| 2 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 noon | case |
| 5 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 died | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 died | nsubj |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 11 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pain | amod |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 died | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | camp's actions | noon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | the man | in horrible pain | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pain=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | act | camp | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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