Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 16
He dropped the bags of shoes and the dogs attacked the shoes and the young man passed out and saw his wife ahead of him the same as usual.
Who acts: husband, dogs · What happens: drop, attack, pass out, see · To what, where: bags, shoes, young man, wife
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 (husband, dogs), 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 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bags | det |
| 4 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bags | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 attacked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dogs | det |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attacked | nsubj |
| 10 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dropped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoes | det |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attacked | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 man | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoes | conj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 passed | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dropped | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 20 saw | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 same | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saw | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 usual | case |
| 29 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 same | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | husband | the bags of shoes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | past | the dogs | the shoes and the young man | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass out | participle | the young man not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | past | husband not said here | husband's wife | of husband; ahead property | tree rules |
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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