Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 95
The old woman was lost with the rest in saving her people from being massacred by the Iroquois.
Who acts: Iroquois · What happens: lose, save, massacre · To what, where: old woman, people
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iroquois), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 saving | mark |
| 10 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lost | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 people | nmod:poss |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saving | obj |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 massacred | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 massacred | aux:pass |
| 15 | massacred | massacre | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saving | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Iroquois | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Iroquois | det |
| 18 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 massacred | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | the old woman | with the rest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | save | gerund | woman's people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 3 | massacre | gerund · passive | the Iroquois | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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