Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 15
Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman.
What happens: punish, leave, take · To what, where: camp, wife, woman
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 punished | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 punished | aux:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punished | nsubj |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 leaving | mark |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 punished | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 leaving | conj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past · passive | camp | thus property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | camp's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | another woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination |
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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