Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 2

An Ojibwa man and wife and one child were out hunting away back in the woods and one day the man said to his wife, “We are going to have trouble now.

Who acts: Ojibwa man, man, We · What happens: hunt away, say, go, have · To what, where: woods, wife, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ojibwa man, man, We), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 child	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 child	nummod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hunting	aux
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 were	compound:prt
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 hunting	advmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 hunting	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 woods	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl:unmarked
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woods	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 wife	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
28	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 going	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wife	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 going	xcomp
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 have	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt away	past · progressive	a Ojibwa man and wife and one child			the woods		away property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the man		child's wife		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	We						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	trouble			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient

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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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 2