Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 24
Then I took his gun, I did not run away till I killed every one them.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, not run away, kill · To what, where: gun, one
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: who acts (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 run | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 run | advmod |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 run | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 killed | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | advcl |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | obj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | child's gun | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 2 | not run away | past · do-support | I | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | I | every one privates | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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