Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 11

Everybody sat still, they did not know what to say, as they had thought that she would have died that night out on the river bank.

Who acts: Everybody, boys, woman · What happens: sit, not know, say, think, die out · To what, where: boys, river bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Killing the Old People.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, boys, woman), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	aux
16	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 know	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 died	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 died	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 died	aux
21	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thought	ccomp
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl:unmarked
24	out	out	ADV	_	21 died	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 bank	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bank	compound
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Everybody			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past · do-support	boys = boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		boys = boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	die out	would · perfect	woman		the river bank	night	out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 11