Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 17
A young Indian, many years ago, went out to hunt early one morning, and coming on noon he got hungry and started back to camp.
Who acts: story · What happens: go out, hunt, come, get, start back · To what, where: noon
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indian | punct |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ago | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hunt | mark |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 morning | nummod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coming | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coming | cc |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 noon | case |
| 20 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 noon | acl:relcl |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 started | cc |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 started | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 camp | case |
| 28 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 started | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | ago, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | morning | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | noon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | story | noon not said here | hungry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer noon=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | start back | past | to camp | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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