Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 6
Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die.
Who acts: families · What happens: make, go back, leave, die · To what, where: camp, 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 making | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 making | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 camp | acl:relcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 home | advmod |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 die | mark |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 left | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | a camp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | families = family | a camp not said here | home property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past | families = family not said here | woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | families = family not said here | 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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