Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 2
The Mohawks were so bad that they used to kill for nothing.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: be, use, kill
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 (Mohawks), 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 Mohawks | det |
| 2 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 bad | advmod |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 used | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 kill | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Mohawks | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Mohawks = mohawk | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | for nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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