Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 8
When he got it all dried he pounded it up very fine, same as corn meal, and put it away in bags for to use in the winter.
Who acts: elder, venison · What happens: get, dry, pound up, put away, use · To what, where: venison, bags
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, venison), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dried | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dried | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 dried | advmod |
| 6 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pounded | nsubj |
| 8 | pounded | pound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dried | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pounded | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pounded | compound:prt |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pounded | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fine | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 meal | case |
| 16 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meal | compound |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 same | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dried | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bags | case |
| 24 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 use | mark |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 use | mark |
| 27 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 put | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 winter | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 winter | det |
| 30 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 use | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | elder | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dry | past | venison | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pound up | past | elder | venison | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 4 | put away | infinitive | venison not said here | venison | bags | away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination | ||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | venison not said here | winter | vn eat-39.1 «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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