Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 15
Only the sick man did not like to go till he got better.
Who acts: sick man, man · What happens: not like, go, get
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 (sick man, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 got | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 got | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the sick man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sick man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past | man | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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