Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 35
She would take the gun of the man just killed and would be ready for the next.
Who acts: woman, gun · What happens: take, kill, be
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, gun), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gun | det |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gun | nmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 killed | advmod |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ready | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ready | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | cop |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 killed | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 next | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ready | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | the gun of the man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | would | the gun of the man not said here | for the next; ready property | tree rules |
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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