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Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 23

Neither his father or the men with him could pull this “something” out, but the young man could; so he pulled it out, wrapped it up and took it to camp.

Who acts: father · What happens: pull out, wrap up, take, camp · To what, where: something, lightning

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 (father), 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

cc:preconjnmod:possnsubjccdetconjcasenmodauxnsubjpunctobjpunctcompound:prtpunctccdetamodnsubjparataxispunctadvmodnsubjparataxisobjcompound:prtpunctconjobjcompound:prtccconjobjmarkadvclpunctrootNeitherCCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNorCCONJtheDETmenNOUNwithADPhimPRONcouldAUXpullVERBthisPRON“PUNCTsomethingPRON”PUNCToutADP,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNcouldAUX;PUNCTsoADVhePRONpulledVERBitPRONoutADP,PUNCTwrappedVERBitPRONupADPandCCONJtookVERBitPRONtoPARTcampVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NeitherneitherCCONJPolarity=Neg10 pullcc:preconj
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 fathernmod:poss
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing10 pullnsubj
4ororCCONJ_6 mencc
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mendet
6menmanNOUNNumber=Plur3 fatherconj
7withwithADP_8 himcase
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 mennmod
9couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 pullaux
10pullpullVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
11thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 somethingnsubj
12“"PUNCT_13 somethingpunct
13somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind10 pullobj
14”"PUNCT_13 somethingpunct
15outoutADP_10 pullcompound:prt
16,,PUNCT_21 couldpunct
17butbutCCONJ_21 couldcc
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 mandet
19youngyoungADJDegree=Pos20 manamod
20manmanNOUNNumber=Sing21 couldnsubj
21couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 pullparataxis
22;;PUNCT_25 pulledpunct
23sosoADV_25 pulledadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 pullednsubj
25pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 pullparataxis
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 pulledobj
27outoutADP_25 pulledcompound:prt
28,,PUNCT_29 wrappedpunct
29wrappedwrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 pulledconj
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wrappedobj
31upupADP_29 wrappedcompound:prt
32andandCCONJ_33 tookcc
33tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 wrappedconj
34ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 tookobj
35totoPART_36 campmark
36campcampVERBVerbForm=Inf33 tookadvcl
37..PUNCT_10 pullpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pull outcouldstory's father or the men with storysomething thistree rules
2pull outpastfatherlightningtree rules
3wrap uppastfather not said herelightningvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4takepastfather not said herelightningvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5campto-infinitivefather not said herevn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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