Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 24
Before this the Ojibwa chief told one of his men to kill her, and she was killed in a quiet way.
What happens: tell, kill · To what, where: one, girl, quiet way · 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: 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 chief | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | compound |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 told | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 killed | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 told | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | one of boy's men | before the Ojibwa chief this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | girl | a quiet way | 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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