Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 19
The man’s power was stronger than hers, for he killed her and nothing happened to him.
Who acts: power, Point, nothing · What happens: be, kill, happen · To what, where: woman, Point
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, Point, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stronger | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | cop |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 hers | case |
| 8 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stronger | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 killed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | parataxis |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man's power | than woman; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | Point | woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | nothing | Point | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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