Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 32
When they got there they killed some of the children to pay the Mohawks for what they did.
Who acts: buttocks · What happens: get, kill, pay, do · To what, where: some, Mohawks
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 (buttocks), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 killed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 killed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mohawks | det |
| 14 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Mohawks | nmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | buttocks = buttock | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | buttocks = buttock | some of the children | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | buttocks = buttock not said here | the Mohawks | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mohawk=Asset for what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | buttocks = buttock | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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