Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 6

He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the air too, when they became gulls, cranes and such-like birds.

Who acts: man, pieces · What happens: cut, throw up, become · To what, where: more pieces, these, air, gulls

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, pieces), 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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 pieces	det
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pieces	amod
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 bigger	advmod
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cut	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 threw	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 threw	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	10 threw	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 became	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
21	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cranes	punct
23	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gulls	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 birds	cc
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 like	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 such	punct
27	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 birds	amod
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gulls	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cut	past	man	some more pieces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product
2	throw up	past	man not said here	these	the air	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme
3	become	past	pieces = piece	gulls and cranes and like birds		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 6