Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 25

The young wife looked in and saw that her mother (the witch) was all snake except her head, and the rest of the family were the same way.

Who acts: young wife, mother, rest · What happens: look in, see, be · To what, where: snake, same way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young wife, mother, rest), 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	3 wife	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 snake	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snake	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 snake	cop
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 snake	det
17	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	ccomp
18	except	except	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snake	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 way	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 way	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 way	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 family	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 family	det
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 way	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in	past	the young wife			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the young wife not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	mother's mother	all snake	except mother's head	tree rules
4	is a	past	the rest of the family	the same way		tree rules

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 25