Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 40

He laid his anus towards the fire and began to shove all the hot coals in to it.

Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: lay, begin, shove · To what, where: anus, hot coals

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush), 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 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 anus	nmod:poss
4	anus	anus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 shove	mark
11	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 coals	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coals	det
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coals	amod
15	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shove	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shove	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Nanabush	Nanabush's anus		towards the fire	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anus=Result
2	begin	past	Nanabush not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shove	to-infinitive	Nanabush not said here	all hot coals	anus		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coal=Theme in it=Destination

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, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 40