Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 92
There was a big reward to anybody that had seen him or had seen him killed.
Who acts: big reward · What happens: be, see, kill · To what, where: reward
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big reward), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reward | amod |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 anybody | case |
| 7 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 reward | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reward | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a big reward to anybody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | a big reward to anybody | reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | a big reward to anybody not said here | reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | a big reward to anybody not said here | 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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