Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 11
He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: catch, throw · To what, where: sturgeon, paws, shoulder
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat), 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 | 3 catching | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 catching | aux |
| 3 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catching | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 paws | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 paws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catching | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throwing | cc |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 catching | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 throwing | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 shoulder | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · progressive | Rat | sturgeon | Rat's paws | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | Rat not said here | paws = paw | Rat's shoulder | on the bank | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
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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