Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 7
This shows that the Mohawks were near and had surrounded their camp.
Who acts: This · What happens: show, surround · To what, where: Mohawks · 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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 surrounded | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mohawks | det |
| 5 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 surrounded | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 surrounded | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 surrounded | aux |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 camp | nmod:poss |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | This | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | surround | past · perfect · passive | the Mohawks | Mohawks's camp obj; near property | tree rules |
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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