Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 4

He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and threw these up in the air.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, work, cut up, throw up · To what, where: man, these, air

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), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 work	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 man	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 bits	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bits	amod
14	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 threw	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 threw	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut up	infinitive	man not said here	half man		into little bits	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bit=Patient
4	throw up	past	man not said here	these	the air		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 4