Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 24

The snail told her he would, but when about half way across the snail dropped the woman into the river, and that was the last of her.

Who acts: snail, way, that · What happens: tell, drop, be · To what, where: mother, woman, river · 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 (snail, way, that), 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 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 would	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dropped	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 dropped	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 dropped	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 half	advmod
11	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 way	advmod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	nsubj
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 snail	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snail	det
15	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nmod
16	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 last	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 last	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 last	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 last	det
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dropped	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 last	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the snail		mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	drop	past	way across the snail	the woman		the river		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme into river=Destination
3	is	past	that				of mother; last property	tree rules

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 24