Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 10
He was not killed but escaped and ran towards his home.
What happens: not kill, escape, run · To what, where: use, home
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 killed | advmod |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 escaped | cc |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 killed | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | past · passive | use | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | escape | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run | past | use's home | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination |
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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