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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 30

He fell and the other tried to run away; before he got away I shot him dead and started to run back towards our country.”

Who acts: gun, other, I · What happens: fall, try, run away, get away, shoot, start · To what, where: gun, country

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 (gun, other, 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

nsubjccdetnsubjconjmarkxcompadvmodpunctmarknsubjconjadvmodnsubjadvclobjxcompccconjmarkxcompadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctrootHePRONfellVERBandCCONJtheDETotherADJtriedVERBtoPARTrunVERBawayADV;PUNCTbeforeSCONJhePRONgotVERBawayADVIPRONshotVERBhimPRONdeadADJandCCONJstartedVERBtoPARTrunVERBbackADVtowardsADPourPRONcountryNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 fellnsubj
2fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3andandCCONJ_6 triedcc
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 otherdet
5otherotherADJDegree=Pos6 triednsubj
6triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 fellconj
7totoPART_8 runmark
8runrunVERBVerbForm=Inf6 triedxcomp
9awayawayADV_8 runadvmod
10;;PUNCT_13 gotpunct
11beforebeforeSCONJ_13 gotmark
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 gotnsubj
13gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 fellconj
14awayawayADV_13 gotadvmod
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 shotnsubj
16shotshootVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 gotadvcl
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 shotobj
18deaddeadADJDegree=Pos16 shotxcomp
19andandCCONJ_20 startedcc
20startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 fellconj
21totoPART_22 runmark
22runrunVERBVerbForm=Inf20 startedxcomp
23backbackADV_22 runadvmod
24towardstowardsADP_26 countrycase
25ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 countrynmod:poss
26countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing22 runobl
27..PUNCT_2 fellpunct
28”"PUNCT_2 fellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fallpastgunvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2trypastthe othervn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3run away not said to happento-infinitivethe other not said hereaway propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4get awaypastgunaway propertyvn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5shootpastIgundead propertyvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6startpastgun not said herevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7run backto-infinitivegun not said hereour countryvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards country=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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