Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 23
She said as she died, “Well, anyway I never killed any big people, just children,” but the people found joints of fingers of grown-up persons on the strings as well as those of children in her camp.
Who acts: witch, people · What happens: say, die, not kill, find, grow up · To what, where: big people, joints, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (witch, people), 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 | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 died | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 8 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 killed | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Well | punct |
| 10 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 13 killed | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 killed | advmod |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 people | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 children | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 children | advmod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 26 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 fingers | case |
| 28 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 joints | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 persons | case |
| 30 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 persons | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 up | punct |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 grown | compound:prt |
| 33 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fingers | nmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 strings | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 strings | det |
| 36 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 persons | nmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 40 those | cc |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 as | fixed |
| 40 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 strings | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 children | case |
| 42 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 those | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 camp | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 camp | nmod:poss |
| 45 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | past | witch | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not kill in a quote | past | witch | any big people and children | anyway property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | the people | joints of fingers of grown persons on the strings those of children | witch's camp | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Topic | |||
| 5 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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