Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 12
The wife (in the second canoe) said, “We will be killed the same way.”
Who acts: wife · What happens: say, kill · To what, where: We · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 canoe | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 canoe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 canoe | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 canoe | amod |
| 7 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 canoe | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 12 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | future · passive | We | the same way obl:unmarked | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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