Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 4

He speared it and killed it, then took it home and cooked it; all the family ate of it, and in a very short time they all took sick and died.

Who acts: man, family, they · What happens: spear, kill, take, cook, eat, die · To what, where: fish

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, family, they), 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 speared	nsubj
2	speared	spear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 speared	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 killed	cc
5	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 speared	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 took	advmod
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 speared	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cooked	cc
13	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cooked	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 family	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 family	det
18	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	nsubj
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 speared	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 short	advmod
27	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 they	det
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ate	conj
32	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 took	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 speared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spear	past	man	fish			vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	kill	past	man not said here	fish			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take	past		fish	then	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	cook	past		fish			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	eat	past	all family			of fish	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source
6	take	past	they		time	sick property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	die	past	they not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 4