Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 21
She hid herself in the bush till she heard her man calling to her and then she came out.
Who acts: fire, man · What happens: hide, hear, call, come out · To what, where: fire, bush, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 man | nmod:poss |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 calling | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | fire | fire | the bush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in bush=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | fire | fire's man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | fire's man not said here | fire | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | fire | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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