Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 42
Note.—(The girl leader of the Ojibwa was not the sister of the boy that was killed and eaten.
Who acts: Note · What happens: not be, kill, eat · To what, where: sister, boy
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 (Note), 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 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 leader | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 leader | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leader | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leader | compound |
| 7 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sister | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ojibwa | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ojibwa | det |
| 10 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 leader | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sister | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sister | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sister | det |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 boy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sister | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 boy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eaten | cc |
| 22 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 killed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Note | the sister | of the boy; the girl leader of the Ojibwa nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | the boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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