Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 15
The Indians used to do this; when people got too old they were killed to be got out of the way.
Who acts: Indians, people · What happens: use, do, get, kill, get out · To what, where: this, people, way
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 (Indians, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 got | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | aux:pass |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 killed | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the Indians | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Indians not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | past | people | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get out | to-infinitive · passive | the way | tree rules |
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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