Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 17
When they got there they had a big time over the recovered scalp.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: get, have, recover
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), 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 | 6 had | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 scalp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scalp | det |
| 12 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 scalp | amod |
| 13 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mohawks = mohawk | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Mohawks = mohawk | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | recover | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
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