Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 3
One time while two families, one of which had an old woman, were out camping, they decided to kill the old woman.
Who acts: families · What happens: have, camp, decide, kill · To what, where: old woman
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 (families), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 camping | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 families | mark |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 families | nummod |
| 5 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 time | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 families | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | parataxis |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 camping | aux |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 were | compound:prt |
| 17 | camping | camp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 camping | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 decided | nsubj |
| 20 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 camping | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 kill | mark |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 decided | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 camping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a old woman | which nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 2 | camp | past · progressive | time | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | decide | past | families = family | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | families = family not said here | the old woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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