Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 3
One time there were three Ojibwa brothers, and one day the Mohawks met one of the brothers and killed him.
Who acts: three Ojibwa brothers, Mohawks · What happens: be, meet, kill · To what, where: one, Peter
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 (three Ojibwa brothers, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brothers | compound |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mohawks | det |
| 13 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 were | parataxis |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brothers | det |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three Ojibwa brothers | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Mohawks | one of the brothers | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | kill | past | the Mohawks not said here | Peter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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