Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 12
He raised a war party of some forty or fifty men and one old man, a prophet, and started after the Mohawks.
Who acts: use · What happens: raise, start · To what, where: war party
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | compound |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 men | det |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fifty | cc |
| 10 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 forty | conj |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 party | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prophet | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prophet | det |
| 18 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 started | cc |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 Mohawks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mohawks | det |
| 24 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 started | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | use | a war party of some forty men and one old man and a prophet | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | use not said here | after the Mohawks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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