Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 12
The man made up his mind what to do, as he had got to die anyway, so he went to work and opened the young bird and took all the insides out and got in himself.
Who acts: man, York · What happens: make up, do, get, die, go, open · To what, where: mind, work, young bird, insides
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, York), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mind | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 got | xcomp |
| 17 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 16 die | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 opened | cc |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opened | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 insides | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 insides | det |
| 33 | insides | inside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 took | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 took | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 got | cc |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 took | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 got | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | the man | York's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the man not said here | York's mind | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | York | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | York not said here | anyway property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | go | past | York | work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | open | past | York not said here | the young bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | past | York not said here | all insides | out property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | |||
| 8 | get | past | York not said here | in York | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | mind | York | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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