Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 5

The old people buried her on the Island, but the young husband went out after the burying, and the old people saw him lie down near the grave.

Who acts: old people, young husband, husband · What happens: bury, go out, see, lie down · To what, where: wife, Island, husband, grave

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 (old people, young husband, husband), 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	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buried	nsubj
4	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Island	det
8	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 husband	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 husband	amod
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 burying	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 burying	det
18	burying	burying	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	obj
26	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 saw	xcomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 lie	advmod
28	near	near	ADP	_	30 grave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grave	det
30	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lie	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	the old people	wife	the Island			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on island=Destination
2	go out	past	the young husband			after the burying	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the old people	husband				tree rules
4	lie down	infinitive	husband not said here		the grave		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near grave=Location

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 Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 5

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Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 5