Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 36

The Mohawks in camping at night fixed some poles around the fire about two feet from the ground, and would lay on their backs with their feet on the poles, warming their hind quarters.

Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: fix, lay, warm · To what, where: poles, fire, backs, hind quarters, Mohawks

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mohawks	det
2	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 camping	case
4	camping	camping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mohawks	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mohawks	nmod
7	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Mohawks	acl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 poles	det
9	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fixed	obj
10	around	around	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poles	nmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 two	advmod
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feet	nummod
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fire	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feet	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 lay	aux
22	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Mohawks	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 backs	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 backs	nmod:poss
25	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lay	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 backs	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 poles	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poles	det
31	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 feet	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warming	punct
33	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 lay	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 quarters	nmod:poss
35	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 quarters	amod
36	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warming	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Mohawks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fix	participle	the Mohawks in camping at night not said here	some poles	the fire and two feet from the ground	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
2	lay	would			Mohawks's backs with Mohawks's feet on the poles	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination
3	warm	gerund		poles's hind quarters		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent quarter=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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 36