Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 7
These brothers did all they could; they killed about three to five hundred of the Mohawks.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: do, kill · To what, where: all, three hundred
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 (brothers), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 three | advmod |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 five | case |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 three | nmod |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 killed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mohawks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mohawks | det |
| 17 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundred | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this brothers | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | brothers = brother | three hundred of the Mohawks | 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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