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Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 4

While living together he made up his mind to send his wife away to look after the dead, those that died long years ago, where she is now.

Who acts: Nanabush, those, wife · What happens: live together, make up, send away, look, die, be · To what, where: mind, wife

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, those, wife), 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

markadvcladvmodnsubjcompound:prtnmod:possobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjadvmodmarkadvclcasedetoblpunctnsubjnsubjparataxisamodobl:unmarkedadvmodpunctadvmodnsubjconjadvmodpunctrootWhileSCONJlivingVERBtogetherADVhePRONmadeVERBupADPhisPRONmindNOUNtoPARTsendVERBhisPRONwifeNOUNawayADVtoPARTlookVERBafterADPtheDETdeadADJ,PUNCTthosePRONthatPRONdiedVERBlongADJyearsNOUNagoADV,PUNCTwhereADVshePRONisVERBnowADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhilewhileSCONJ_2 livingmark
2livingliveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 madeadvcl
3togethertogetherADV_2 livingadvmod
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 madensubj
5mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6upupADP_5 madecompound:prt
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 mindnmod:poss
8mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing5 madeobj
9totoPART_10 sendmark
10sendsendVERBVerbForm=Inf5 madeadvcl
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 wifenmod:poss
12wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing10 sendobj
13awayawayADV_10 sendadvmod
14totoPART_15 lookmark
15looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf10 sendadvcl
16afterafterADP_18 deadcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 deaddet
18deaddeadADJDegree=Pos15 lookobl
19,,PUNCT_22 diedpunct
20thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem22 diednsubj
21thatthatPRONPronType=Rel22 diednsubj
22dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 madeparataxis
23longlongADJDegree=Pos24 yearsamod
24yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur25 agoobl:unmarked
25agoagoADV_22 diedadvmod
26,,PUNCT_29 ispunct
27wherewhereADVPronType=Rel29 isadvmod
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 isnsubj
29isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 diedconj
30nownowADVPronType=Dem29 isadvmod
31..PUNCT_5 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1live togethergerundNanabush not said heretogether propertyvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2make uppastNanabushNanabush's mindvn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3send awayto-infinitiveNanabush not said hereNanabush's wifeaway propertyvn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
4lookto-infinitiveNanabush not said hereafter the deadvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5diepastthosethat nsubj; ago propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6bepresentwifenowvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7mindNanabushnom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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