Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 3

He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out one morning quite a long ways off the Reserve to hunt bear and duck.

Who acts: man · What happens: want, hunt, go out · To what, where: long ways, bear

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 (man), 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hunt	mark
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 badly	advmod
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hunt	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 he	conj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	advcl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 morning	nummod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl:unmarked
17	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	20 ways	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ways	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ways	amod
20	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 Reserve	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Reserve	det
23	Reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ways	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hunt	mark
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ways	acl
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hunt	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 duck	cc
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bear	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			badly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go out	past	man	quite long ways off the Reserve	morning	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hunt	to-infinitive	man not said here	bear and duck			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme

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 3

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Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 3