Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 10
I will die in their hands, you run away and tell our people what has happened.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: die, run away, tell, happen · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 die | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | aux |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 die | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 run | nsubj |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | parataxis |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 run | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | future | I | in brothers's hands | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hand=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | run away | present | you | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | our people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | present · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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