Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 12
Then he saw a very nice man come out of the tree and observed what was going on, so he thought he would kill his wife as soon as she got back to camp.
Who acts: person, nice man, wife · What happens: see, come out, observe, go on, think, kill · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (person, nice man, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 nice | advmod |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 observed | cc |
| 14 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 observed | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 going | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 thought | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 soon | advmod |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 got | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 got | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | advcl |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 camp | case |
| 35 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | person | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | infinitive | a nice man | of the tree; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | observe | past | person not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | person | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill | would | person | person's wife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get back | past | wife | to camp result; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result |
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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