Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 38
When she got near the old man caught her and got a very small box and put her in and went out.
Who acts: wife, old man · What happens: get, catch, put in, go out · To what, where: wife, small box
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 (wife, old man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 box | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 box | amod |
| 15 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | the old man | wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the old man not said here | a small box | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | put in | infinitive | wife not said here | wife | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | wife not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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