Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 3
There are some Mohawks about, and they are going to come to-night to kill us.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: be, go, come, kill · To what, where: us
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 (Mohawks), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 Mohawks | det |
| 4 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 are | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 are | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | advcl |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | some Mohawks | there | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | Mohawks = mohawk | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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