Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 28

The man told her who he was and they kissed each other and lived together the rest of their lives.

Who acts: man, husband · What happens: tell, be, kiss, live together · To what, where: wife, each, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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, husband), 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 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 told	ccomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 who	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 who	cop
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kissed	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kissed	nsubj
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 kissed	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lived	cc
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kissed	conj
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 lived	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lives	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lives	nmod:poss
20	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rest	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the man		wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	husband				tree rules
3	kiss	past	man	each			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
4	live together	past	man not said here	the rest of man's lives		together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rest=Location

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, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 28