Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 15
When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big yell to show the Mohawks that there was going to be a fight, and started to kill everyone who was in the village.
Who acts: Ojibwas, captain · What happens: get, give, show, go, be, start · To what, where: big yell, Mohawks, fight, everyone, village
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 (Ojibwas, captain), 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 | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ojibwas | det |
| 3 | Ojibwas | ojibwa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 7 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 village | compound |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 captain | nmod:poss |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 yell | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yell | amod |
| 14 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gave | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mohawks | det |
| 18 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 show | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 was | nsubj |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Mohawks | acl:relcl |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 was | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fight | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fight | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fight | det |
| 26 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 started | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 started | cc |
| 29 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 started | xcomp |
| 32 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 village | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 village | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 village | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 village | det |
| 37 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Ojibwas | to the Mohawk village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Ojibwas's captain | a big yell | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain not said here | the Mohawks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mohawk=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | Ojibwas's captain not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain not said here | a fight | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | start | past | Ojibwas's captain not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | kill | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain not said here | everyone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | past | the village | who nsubj | 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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