Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 9
He left her near the camp telling her to come in after dark.
Who acts: John · What happens: leave, tell, come in · To what, where: woman, 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 (John), 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 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 camp | det |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 left | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 telling | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 dark | case |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | John | woman | the camp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme near camp=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | John not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | John not said here | after dark | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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