Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 5
When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed they got mad (angry) and both got ready with war clubs and lots of shot and powder.
Who acts: other two, brothers, both · What happens: come, know, kill, get · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (other two, brothers, both), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 two | amod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 know | ccomp |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | ccomp |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 angry | punct |
| 18 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mad | conj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 angry | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 clubs | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clubs | compound |
| 26 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ready | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lots | cc |
| 28 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clubs | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 shot | case |
| 30 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lots | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 powder | cc |
| 32 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shot | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the other two | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the other two not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Mohawks's brother | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past | brothers = brother | mad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | get | past | both | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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