Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 11
The other brother started back home and left his brother to be killed, who was killed some time later.
Who acts: other brother · What happens: start back, leave, kill · To what, where: brother
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 (other brother), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 left | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 killed | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 later | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 killed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | the other brother | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the other brother not said here | leg's brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | the other brother not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | who nsubj:pass; late property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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