Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 6
The opposing warriors fought on the ice and the Mohawks were beaten.
Who acts: opposing warriors · What happens: oppose, fight, beat · To what, where: ice, Mohawks
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 (opposing warriors), 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 | 3 warriors | det |
| 2 | opposing | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 warriors | amod |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beaten | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mohawks | det |
| 10 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fought | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppose | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | the opposing warriors | the ice | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat | past · passive | the Mohawks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location 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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