Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 5
They took her by the hand and led her to the bush some distance away where they stopped in a lonely place and told her to sit there till they got ready to build a camp.
Who acts: families · What happens: take, lead, stop, tell, sit, get · To what, where: woman, bush, lonely place, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Killing the Old People.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (families), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bush | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bush | det |
| 12 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 distance | advmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stopped | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 distance | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 21 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sit | mark |
| 27 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 told | xcomp |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 sit | advmod |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 got | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sit | advcl |
| 32 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 got | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 build | mark |
| 34 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 ready | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 camp | det |
| 36 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 build | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | families = family | woman | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | past | families = family not said here | woman | the bush | some distance obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bush=Destination | ||
| 3 | stop | past | families = family | a lonely place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | families = family not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | families = family not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | get | past | families = family | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | build | to-infinitive | families = family not said here | a camp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
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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