Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 2
Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on a hunt up the Gull River waters.
Who acts: purpose · What happens: leave, go up · To what, where: Rama Reserve, River waters, hunt
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 (purpose), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 party | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 party | amod |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Reserve | det |
| 7 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Reserve | compound |
| 8 | Reserve | Reserve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 purpose | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 purpose | det |
| 11 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 purpose | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hunt | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hunt | det |
| 16 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 going | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 waters | det |
| 19 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 River | compound |
| 20 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 waters | compound |
| 21 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the Rama Reserve | once a small party; for the purpose | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reserve=Theme for purpose=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the purpose not said here | the River waters | a hunt | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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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