Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 36

There were stumps and stones down the hill and as they went down the hill very fast, the boy thought to hit a stone and kill the old man, which he did.

Who acts: stumps, boy · What happens: be, go down, think, hit, kill, do · To what, where: hill, stone, old man

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 (stumps, boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stones	cc
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stumps	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hit	mark
23	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stone	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hit	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kill	cc
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hit	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 did	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 did	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 man	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	stumps and stones		there	down the hill	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	stumps = stump	the hill		fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent
3	think speech: other	past	the boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hit	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	a stone			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme
5	kill	infinitive	the boy not said here	the old man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6	do	past	boy	the old man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 36