Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 3

Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserve and had taken another woman with him, which was a very bad thing to do.

Who acts: bad man · What happens: be, leave, take, do · To what, where: bad man, wife, Reserve, woman, bad thing

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 (bad man), 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	Amongst	amongst	ADP	_	3 party	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 left	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 man	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 Reserve	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Reserve	det
15	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taken	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 left	conj
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 thing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 bad	advmod
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thing	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a bad man and a bad thing			amongst this party	tree rules
2	leave	past · perfect	a bad man and a bad thing	Peter's wife		the Reserve		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme on reserve=Location
3	take	past · perfect	a bad man and a bad thing not said here		another woman		with Peter	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
4	is a	past	a bad man and a bad thing	a bad thing				tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 3