Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 27

He reached out his hand and took the fourth man and placed him on his side, when the man became a granite stone, and there were only three men that came back home.

Who acts: man, three men · What happens: reach out, take, place, become, be, come back · To what, where: hand, fourth man, man, side, granite stone

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, three men), 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	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 reached	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 side	nmod:poss
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 became	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stone	det
23	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stone	compound
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 were	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 were	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 were	expl
28	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 men	advmod
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 men	nummod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 were	nsubj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 men	acl:relcl
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	home	home	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach out	past	man	man's hand				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	take	past	man not said here		the fourth man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
3	place	past	man not said here	man		man's side		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on side=Destination
4	become	past	the man	a granite stone				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	be	past	three men			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come back	past	three men				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 27

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Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 27