Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 1

The story of the woman who visited a man who lived in a tree, and who could change himself into a serpent when he wished.

Who acts: story, man · What happens: visit, live, change, wish · To what, where: man, tree, serpent

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, man), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visited	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 visited	nsubj
7	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visited	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 change	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 change	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 change	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 change	aux
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 visited	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 change	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 serpent	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 serpent	det
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 change	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 wished	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wished	nsubj
26	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 change	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	the story of the woman	a man		who nsubj	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	live	past	a man		a tree		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
3	change	could		man		into a serpent result; who nsubj	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into serpent=Result
4	wish	past	story				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 1