Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 15
In their wars with other tribes they seldom slew women or children, and rarely sacrificed the lives of their prisoners.
Who acts: Falls · What happens: slay, sacrifice, war · To what, where: women, wars, lives
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falls), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wars | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wars | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slew | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tribes | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tribes | amod |
| 6 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slew | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slew | nsubj |
| 8 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 9 slew | advmod |
| 9 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slew | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 children | cc |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 women | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacrificed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sacrificed | cc |
| 15 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 16 sacrificed | advmod |
| 16 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slew | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lives | det |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sacrificed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prisoners | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lives | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Falls | women or children | Falls's wars | with other tribes; seldom property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent woman=Patient with tribe=Instrument | ||
| 2 | sacrifice | past | Falls not said here | the lives of Falls's prisoners | rarely property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 3 | war | Falls | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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