Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 5
If I am killed they will take you away to their home.”
Who acts: man · What happens: kill, take · To what, where: I, you
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 killed | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 take | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | I | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | future | man | you | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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