Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 30
As soon as the big boy got in the canoe the old man pushed out quickly and left the little boy behind.
What happens: get, push out, leave · To what, where: old man, canoe, little boy
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: 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 got | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 canoe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 canoe | det |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 pushed | compound:prt |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 pushed | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | amod |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the old man | the canoe | as the big boy; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus as boy=Attribute | |||
| 2 | push out | participle | the old man not said here | quickly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the little boy | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
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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