Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 3
They were going across to fight the Mohawks on the east side, when an old Mohawk woman came down to the ice hole to get some water.
Who acts: Ojibwas, old Mohawk woman · What happens: go, fight, come down, get · To what, where: Mohawks, east side, ice hole, water
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwas, old Mohawk woman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADV | _ | 3 going | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mohawks | det |
| 8 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fight | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 17 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | compound |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hole | compound |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hole | acl |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Ojibwas = ojibwa | across property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | Ojibwas = ojibwa not said here | the Mohawks | the east side | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohawk=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | come down | past | a old Mohawk woman | the ice hole | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | a old Mohawk woman not said here | some water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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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