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Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 7

The old woman was left on a river bank, and it happened that one of the boys was out hunting that way and when he was coming back home he saw his grandmother sitting by the river side.

Who acts: it, one, John, grandmother · What happens: leave, happen, hunt, come back, see, sit · To what, where: old woman, river bank, way, grandmother

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 (it, one, John, grandmother), 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

detamodnsubjaux:passcasedetcompoundoblpunctccnsubjconjmarknsubjcasedetnmodauxcompound:prtadvcldetobl:unmarkedccadvmodnsubjauxconjadvmodadvmodnsubjccompnmod:possobjaclcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootTheDEToldADJwomanNOUNwasAUXleftVERBonADPaDETriverNOUNbankNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONhappenedVERBthatSCONJoneNUMofADPtheDETboysNOUNwasAUXoutADPhuntingVERBthatDETwayNOUNandCCONJwhenADVhePRONwasAUXcomingVERBbackADVhomeADVhePRONsawVERBhisPRONgrandmotherNOUNsittingVERBbyADPtheDETriverNOUNsideNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 womandet
2oldoldADJDegree=Pos3 womanamod
3womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing5 leftnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 leftaux:pass
5leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6ononADP_9 bankcase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 bankdet
8riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing9 bankcompound
9bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing5 leftobl
10,,PUNCT_13 happenedpunct
11andandCCONJ_13 happenedcc
12ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 happenednsubj
13happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 leftconj
14thatthatSCONJ_21 huntingmark
15oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card21 huntingnsubj
16ofofADP_18 boyscase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 boysdet
18boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur15 onenmod
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 huntingaux
20outoutADP_19 wascompound:prt
21huntinghuntVERBVerbForm=Ger13 happenedadvcl
22thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem23 waydet
23waywayNOUNNumber=Sing21 huntingobl:unmarked
24andandCCONJ_28 comingcc
25whenwhenADVPronType=Int28 comingadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 comingnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 comingaux
28comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 huntingconj
29backbackADV_28 comingadvmod
30homehomeADV_28 comingadvmod
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 sawnsubj
32sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 comingccomp
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 grandmothernmod:poss
34grandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing32 sawobj
35sittingsitVERBVerbForm=Ger34 grandmotheracl
36bybyADP_39 sidecase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 sidedet
38riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing39 sidecompound
39sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing35 sittingobl
40..PUNCT_5 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leavepast · passivethe old womana river bankvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on bank=Location
2happenpastitvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3huntpast · progressiveone of the boysthat wayvn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4come backpast · progressiveJohnhome propertytree rules
5seepastJohnJohn's grandmothervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus
6sitgerundJohn's grandmother not said hereby the river sidevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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