Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 4

He had a dream one night never to cross on the ice at night on any lake, but one day shortly afterwards he went too far away hunting and got very tired.

Who acts: John · What happens: have, not cross, go, hunt, get · To what, where: dream, ice

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 (John), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dream	det
4	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl:unmarked
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 cross	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ice	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ice	det
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl:unmarked
22	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	21 day	advmod
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 away	advmod
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
29	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 away	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 went	conj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 tired	advmod
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 got	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	a dream		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	not cross	to-infinitive			the ice	night	on any lake	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	John			day	afterwards, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	gerund	John not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	past	John not said here				tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 4

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Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 4