Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 11
He cut a hole in the ice and let down his decoy.
Who acts: fish · What happens: cut, let down · To what, where: hole, ice, decoy
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 (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 | 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cut | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 let | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 decoy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | decoy | decoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | fish | a hole | the ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | |||
| 2 | let down | infinitive | fish not said here | fish's decoy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decoy=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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