Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 29
Well, I thought, if I kill them this time I would be safe, so I made a good aim and fired at the first.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, kill, be, make, fire · To what, where: buttocks, time, good aim, first
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kill | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 safe | cop |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 aim | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 aim | amod |
| 22 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fired | cc |
| 24 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 made | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 first | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 first | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 fired | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | I | buttocks = buttock | time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | would | I | this time not said here | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | I | a good aim | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Product | ||||
| 5 | fire | participle | I not said here | the first | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at first=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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