Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 3

One old man had a good boy who was hunting all the time, getting all kinds of game and always having plenty to eat.

Who acts: One old man, good boy · What happens: have, hunt, get, eat · To what, where: good boy, kinds, plenty

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 (One old man, good boy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 man	nummod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hunting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hunting	aux
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boy	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 getting	punct
15	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hunting	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 kinds	det
17	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 getting	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 game	case
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kinds	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 having	cc
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 having	advmod
22	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hunting	conj
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 having	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 plenty	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	One old man	a good boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	hunt	past · progressive	a good boy		time		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	gerund	a good boy not said here	all kinds of game			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
4	have	gerund	a good boy not said here	plenty		always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	a good boy not said here	plenty not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 3