Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 12
The ones that you have used badly, and they will pay you for what you have done to them while living.”
Who acts: dogs, you · What happens: use, pay, do, live · To what, where: ones, you, dogs
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ones | det |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 used | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | aux |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pay | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 living | mark |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 done | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect · passive | the ones | that nsubj:pass; you nsubj:pass; badly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay | future | dogs = dog | you | what obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for what=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | you | dogs = dog | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | you not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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