Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 10

He rolled till he got to be as big as a good-sized calf, then he stopped and watched the lake.

Who acts: man · What happens: roll, get, be, stop, watch · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Little Dog Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	9 big	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 big	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 big	advmod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	ccomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	15 calf	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 calf	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sized	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
14	sized	sized	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calf	amod
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 big	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopped	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stopped	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stopped	nsubj
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 watched	cc
21	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stopped	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lake	det
23	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watched	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	man				tree rules
2	get	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	to-infinitive	man not said here			as a sized calf; big property	tree rules
4	stop	past	man		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	watch	past	man not said here	the lake			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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, The Little Dog Story., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 10