Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 10

The husband of the old witch went out alone to a little lake some miles away to see if there were any fish there.

Who acts: husband, fish · What happens: go out, see, be

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The People Who Became Serpents.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, fish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 witch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 lake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 miles	det
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 away	obl:unmarked
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 lake	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	advcl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 were	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 were	nsubj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 were	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the husband of the old witch		to a little lake; alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive	the husband of the old witch not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	be a condition, not said to happen	past	any fish	there; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 10