Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 10
The boy was killed before the people and the chief called a big feast and had the boy cooked.
Who acts: chief, boy · What happens: kill, call, have, cook · To what, where: boy, big feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (chief, boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chief | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | conj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 chief | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feast | amod |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cooked | nsubj |
| 19 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the boy | before the people and the chief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the chief not said here | a big feast | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cook | past | the boy | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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