Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 13

At the far end of this place they saw a great big man lying down dead, with his big kettle and a great big knife, for the Wintigo was going to kill and eat these people.

Who acts: underbrush, great big man, Wintigo · What happens: see, lie down, go, kill, eat · To what, where: great big man, far end, dead, people

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants).. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (underbrush, great big man, Wintigo), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 end	amod
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
14	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	acl
15	down	down	ADV	_	16 dead	advmod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lying	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kettle	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 kettle	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kettle	nmod:poss
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kettle	amod
21	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knife	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 knife	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knife	amod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knife	amod
26	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kettle	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Wintigo	det
30	Wintigo	Wintigo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 going	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 kill	mark
34	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 eat	cc
36	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 kill	conj
37	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 people	det
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 eat	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	underbrush	a great big man	at the far end of this place	with man's big kettle and a great big knife	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	lie down	gerund	a great big man not said here	dead			tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	the Wintigo				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kill	to-infinitive	the Wintigo not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat	infinitive	the Wintigo not said here	this people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 13