Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 8
There were fifteen Mohawks and the one Ojibwa man had to fight them all.
Who acts: one, fifteen Mohawks · What happens: be, man, have, fight · To what, where: 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 (one, fifteen 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Mohawks | nummod |
| 4 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 man | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 8 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 man | compound |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mohawks | conj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fight | mark |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fight | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | man | the one | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | fifteen Mohawks and Ojibwa man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | fifteen Mohawks and Ojibwa man not said here | Mohawks = mohawk | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
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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