Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 8

When this young man came home in the evening he happened to step on the bone and got hurt, which laid him up nearly all winter, and they all got hard times.

Who acts: young man, man, bone, people · What happens: come, happen, step, hurt, lay up, get · To what, where: bone, man

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 man, man, bone, people), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 step	mark
13	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 happened	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bone	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bone	det
16	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hurt	cc
18	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hurt	aux:pass
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bone	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bone	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 laid	compound:prt
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 winter	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 winter	det
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 got	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 they	det
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	conj
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 times	amod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 got	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	this young man			evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past	man					tree rules
3	step	to-infinitive	man not said here		the bone			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=Trajectory
4	hurt	past · passive	man not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	lay up	past	the bone	man		winter		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
6	get	past	people			time		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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 8