Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 4
They hid him in the bush and took his scalp home.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: hide, take · To what, where: Peter, bush, 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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 scalp | nmod:poss |
| 10 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Mohawks = mohawk | Peter | the bush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in bush=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | Peter's scalp | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=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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