Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 2
One time a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his wife.
Who acts: man, arrow · What happens: shoot, steal · To what, where: another, wife
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Origin of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, arrow), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | nsubj |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 shot | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrow | cc |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 stealing | mark |
| 13 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 arrow | acl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stealing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | a man | another | time | with man's bow and arrow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent another=Patient with bow=Instrument | ||
| 2 | steal | gerund | arrow not said here | man's wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=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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