Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 32
When they got to the old man’s place the big boy was locked up (confined) for a good many days and could not get a chance to run away.
Who acts: bow · What happens: get, lock up, confine, not get, run away · To what, where: big boy, chance
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 (bow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 locked | aux:pass |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 locked | compound:prt |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 confined | punct |
| 17 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 locked | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 confined | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 confined | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 get | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 get | advmod |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 locked | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chance | det |
| 29 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 run | mark |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 chance | acl |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 run | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | bow | to the old man's place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 2 | lock up | past · passive | the big boy | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | confine | participle | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not get | could | a chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | run away | to-infinitive | a chance not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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