Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 10
The man got up and got his chisel and knocked the young bird down and killed it.
Who acts: man · What happens: get up, get, knock down, kill · To what, where: chisel, young bird, bird
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chisel | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knocked | cc |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knocked | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 knocked | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knocked | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the man not said here | John's chisel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chisel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | knock down | past | the man not said here | the young bird | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | the man not said here | bird | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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