Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 14

When they got to the place where the fight was they saw the dead man sitting up dressed in some very nice things, such as buckskin clothing, but his scalp was taken.

Who acts: Mohawks, dead man · What happens: get, be, sit up, dress, take · To what, where: nice things, scalp

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mohawks, dead man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 saw	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fight	det
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	cop
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sitting	compound:prt
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sitting	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 things	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 things	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 nice	advmod
22	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dressed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 clothing	punct
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 clothing	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	25 such	fixed
27	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clothing	compound
28	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 things	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 taken	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 scalp	nmod:poss
32	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 taken	aux:pass
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Mohawks = mohawk			to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
2	is	past	Mohawks = mohawk			the fight obl; the dead man obj; see property	tree rules
3	sit up	gerund	the dead man not said here				tree rules
4	dress	participle	the dead man not said here		some nice things such buckskin clothing		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past · passive		man's scalp			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 14