Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 4
After being on the hunt for some time this man died and was prepared for burial, and a grave was dug.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, die, prepare, dig · To what, where: grave
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 hunt | case |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hunt | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hunt | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunt | det |
| 5 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunt | nmod |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prepared | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prepared | aux:pass |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 died | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 burial | case |
| 16 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dug | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dug | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grave | det |
| 20 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dug | aux:pass |
| 22 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 died | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | after the hunt; time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | past | this man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | prepare | past · passive | this man not said here | for burial | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for burial=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | dig | past · passive | a grave | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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