Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 7
One time this bad old woman went out just a little way in the bush and put a bone on the road (trail), so to let this young man step on the bone and get hurt.
Who acts: old woman, this · What happens: go out, put, let, step, hurt · To what, where: little way, bone, road
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 (old woman, this), 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 | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woman | det |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 way | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bush | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bone | det |
| 19 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 trail | punct |
| 24 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 road | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 trail | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 let | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 let | mark |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 step | nsubj |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 step | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 step | compound |
| 33 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 bone | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bone | det |
| 36 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 step | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hurt | cc |
| 38 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 hurt | aux:pass |
| 39 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 let | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | this old woman | a little way in the bush | time | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | this old woman not said here | a bone | the road | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme on road=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | step | this | the bone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hurt | infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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