Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 12
Whereupon he struck her on the head with the axe and killed her on the spot.
Who acts: boy · What happens: strike, kill · To what, where: witch, spot
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 axe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 axe | det |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 spot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | boy | witch | with the axe; on the head; whereupon property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 2 | kill | past | boy not said here | witch | the spot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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