Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 6
One of the children of the camp who happened to go and look at the body, came back and said that clothes were pushed off the body’s face and breast, so the older people went to see.
Who acts: camp, older people · What happens: happen, go, look, come back, say, push off · To what, where: clothes, One · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (camp, older people), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 camp | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happened | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 pushed | mark |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pushed | aux:pass |
| 25 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 body | case |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pushed | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 breast | cc |
| 32 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 face | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 went | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 36 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 people | amod |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 went | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the camp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the camp not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | the camp not said here | at the body | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at body=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | push off | past · passive | clothes | off the body's face and breast | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 7 | go | past | the older people | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | the older people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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