Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 5
He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before burial.
What happens: leave · To what, where: grave, place
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 camp | advmod |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 camp | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 burial | case |
| 15 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | grave | a place | before burial; day | outside the camp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in place=Location |
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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