Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 16

He shot one of these and killed it and the last bear had to come down when there was no shot ready for him.

Who acts: Lake, last bear, shot · What happens: shoot, kill, have, come down, be · To what, where: one, shot

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake, last bear, shot), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shot	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 one	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 killed	cc
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bear	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bear	amod
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 was	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	cop
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 shot	det
21	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ready	nsubj
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 come	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ready	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	Lake	one of these		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	kill	past	Lake not said here	shot		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	have	past	the last bear			tree rules
4	come down	to-infinitive	the last bear not said here		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	no shot		for Lake; ready property	tree rules

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, John York’s Own Story., sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 16