Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 9
Well, he did very well for he killed quite a lot of them, but his wife and child were taken prisoners whilst he was fighting.
Who acts: use · What happens: do, kill, take, fight · To what, where: lot, wife
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 (use), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 killed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 10 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 lot | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lot | det |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 child | cc |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 killed | conj |
| 23 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taken | obj |
| 24 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 27 fighting | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fighting | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fighting | aux |
| 27 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 taken | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | use | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | use | quite lot of Mohawks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | use's wife and child | prisoners obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme prisoner=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fight | past · progressive | use | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/11/9/