Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 9
While this young man was in the camp before he got better, they got so poor that they had to go to some other place.
Who acts: young man, man, people · What happens: be, get, have, go · To what, where: camp, other place
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, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 camp | 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 | 8 camp | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 camp | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 camp | advcl |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 camp | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 poor | advmod |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 poor | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 place | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this young man | the camp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | man | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | past | people | poor property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | people not said here | some other place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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