Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 22
The young men went with her because they were afraid she would kill them if they didn’t go.
Who acts: young men, men, witch · What happens: go, be, kill, not go · To what, where: men
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 (young men, men, witch), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 afraid | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advcl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 afraid | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kill | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young men | with witch | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | men = man | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | would | witch | men = man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | men = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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