Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 7
After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red woman in just the same position as the Mohawk woman posed, on the rocks on the east shore near where the fight took place (now called McPherson’s Quarry or Geneva Park).
Who acts: Ojibwas, fight · What happens: paint, pose, take, call · To what, where: red woman, same position, Mohawk woman, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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, fight), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ojibwas | det |
| 5 | Ojibwas | ojibwa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 position | case |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 position | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 position | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 position | amod |
| 14 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | compound |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 position | nmod |
| 19 | posed | pose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 woman | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rocks | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 rocks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rocks | det |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 painted | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 26 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shore | amod |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rocks | nmod |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 where | case |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 took | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fight | det |
| 31 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | nsubj |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shore | acl:relcl |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 called | advmod |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 place | acl |
| 37 | McPherson | McPherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Quarry | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 McPherson | case |
| 39 | Quarry | Quarry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 called | xcomp |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 Geneva | cc |
| 41 | Geneva | Geneva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Quarry | conj |
| 42 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Geneva | flat |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the Ojibwas | a red woman | the same position as the Mohawk woman | after the battle | on the rocks on the east shore | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in position=Destination | |
| 2 | pose | participle | the Mohawk woman not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the fight | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | place not said here | now | McPherson's Quarry or Geneva xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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