Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 17
He went out hunting and got some game for himself, wife, father and mother.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, hunt, get · To what, where: game
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 (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 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 game | det |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mother | cc |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | man not said here | some game | for man; wife and father and mother obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent game=Theme for himself=Source |
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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