Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 15

He caught a very big sturgeon, but on account of his crooked claws, could not let go, and the sturgeon swam out to deep water and drowned the wild cat.

Who acts: CAT, sturgeon · What happens: catch, not let, go, swim out, drown, account · To what, where: big sturgeon, account, deep water, wild cat, crooked claws

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 (CAT, sturgeon), 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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sturgeon	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sturgeon	amod
6	sturgeon	sturgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 account	case
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 claws	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 claws	nmod:poss
13	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 claws	amod
14	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 account	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 account	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caught	conj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 swam	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 swam	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sturgeon	det
23	sturgeon	sturgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swam	nsubj
24	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 swam	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swam	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drowned	cc
30	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 swam	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cat	amod
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drowned	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	CAT	a big sturgeon			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Theme
2	not let	could	CAT not said here		account of CAT's crooked claws		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	CAT not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swim out	past	the sturgeon		deep water	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to water=Destination
5	drown	past	the sturgeon not said here	the wild cat			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
6	account			CAT's crooked claws			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 15