Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 6

One night while the man was asleep the little dog licked him on the face till he woke up, which went to show that there was trouble at hand.

Who acts: man, One night, trouble · What happens: be, lick, wake up, go, show · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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, One night, trouble), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 licked	nsubj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 asleep	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asleep	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asleep	obl
11	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 licked	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 face	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 face	det
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 licked	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 woke	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woke	nsubj
18	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 licked	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 woke	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woke	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 went	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 show	ccomp
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 hand	case
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trouble	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 licked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man			the little dog obl; asleep property	tree rules
2	lick	past	One night	man		on the face	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on face=Theme
3	wake up	past	man				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	go	past				which nsubj	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	past	trouble at hand		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 6