Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 30
When on the Thunderbird’s rock he killed only one of the young Thunderbirds.
Who acts: husband · What happens: kill · To what, where: one
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 (husband), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thunderbird | det |
| 4 | Thunderbird | thunderbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Thunderbird | case |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rock | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 killed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Thunderbirds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thunderbirds | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Thunderbirds | amod |
| 14 | Thunderbirds | thunderbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | husband | one of the young Thunderbirds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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