Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 34
She did not run away after she killed the first man for fear the rest would chase her and catch her, so she stayed in camp and killed them as they came in singly from hunting.
Who acts: woman, rest, man · What happens: not run away, kill, chase, catch, stay, come in · To what, where: first man, woman, camp, man
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 (woman, rest, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 killed | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chase | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 chase | aux |
| 17 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 killed | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chase | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 catch | cc |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 chase | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 stayed | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 camp | case |
| 27 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 killed | cc |
| 29 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 killed | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 killed | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 35 | singly | singly | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 37 hunting | mark |
| 37 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 singly | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | past · do-support | woman | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | woman | the first man | for fear | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | chase | would | the rest | woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | infinitive | the rest not said here | woman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | woman | camp | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location | ||||
| 6 | kill | past | woman not said here | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come in | past | man | singly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hunt | gerund | man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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