Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 9
After a short while the party moved camp on their homeward journey, and at Balsam Lake when the month was just about to be up the man said that he was going to die and knew he could not stop it.
Who acts: party, month, man, camp, people · What happens: move, be, go, die, know, not stop · To what, where: camp, homeward journey, Balsam Lake, party · 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 (party, month, man, camp), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 short | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 short | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | parataxis |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 moved | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 short | advcl |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | compound |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lake | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Lake | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Lake | case |
| 16 | Balsam | Balsam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lake | compound |
| 17 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 about | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 month | det |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 about | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 about | cop |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 about | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | cop |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 be | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 going | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 going | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 going | aux |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 said | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 die | mark |
| 35 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 going | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 knew | cc |
| 37 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 die | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stop | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 stop | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 stop | advmod |
| 41 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 knew | ccomp |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stop | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the party | camp | people's homeward journey | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the month | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | infinitive | the man | Balsam Lake | say property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | camp | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | camp not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | know | past | camp not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | not stop | could | camp | party | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | journey | people | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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