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Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 3

He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleeping together in a bush, when he shot them with his arrows and killed them both.

Who acts: man, actions, wife · What happens: watch, see, sleep together, shoot, kill, act · To what, where: actions, bush

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, actions, 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

nsubjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodccdetconjccconjobjxcompadvmodcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisobjcasenmod:possoblccconjobjobjpunctrootHePRONwatchedVERBtheDETactionsNOUNofADPhisPRONwifeNOUNandCCONJthisDETmanNOUNandCCONJsawVERBthemPRONsleepingVERBtogetherADVinADPaDETbushNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONshotVERBthemPRONwithADPhisPRONarrowsNOUNandCCONJkilledVERBthemPRONbothDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 watchednsubj
2watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 actionsdet
4actionsactionNOUNNumber=Plur2 watchedobj
5ofofADP_7 wifecase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 wifenmod:poss
7wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing4 actionsnmod
8andandCCONJ_10 mancc
9thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 mandet
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 wifeconj
11andandCCONJ_12 sawcc
12sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 watchedconj
13themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 sawobj
14sleepingsleepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 sawxcomp
15togethertogetherADV_14 sleepingadvmod
16ininADP_18 bushcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 bushdet
18bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing14 sleepingobl
19,,PUNCT_22 shotpunct
20whenwhenADVPronType=Int22 shotadvmod
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shotnsubj
22shotshootVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 watchedparataxis
23themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shotobj
24withwithADP_26 arrowscase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 arrowsnmod:poss
26arrowsarrowNOUNNumber=Plur22 shotobl
27andandCCONJ_28 killedcc
28killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 shotconj
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 killedobj
30bothbothDETPronType=Tot28 killedobj
31..PUNCT_2 watchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watchpastmanthe actions of man's wife and this manvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2seepastman not said hereactions = actiontree rules
3sleep togethergerundactions = action not said herea bushtogether propertyvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location
4shootpastmanactions = actionwith man's arrowsvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument
5killpastman not said hereactions = actionvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result
6actman's wife and this mannom action «act intransitive»: of=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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