Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 20

When they got home there was a big feast and everybody came and ate some bear meat, for their friends thought the hunters had been killed by the Mohawks.

Who acts: bear, big feast, some, friends, Mohawks · What happens: get, be, come, eat, bear, think · To what, where: meat, hunters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, big feast, some, friends), 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	12 came	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feast	amod
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 everybody	cc
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 feast	conj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bear	nsubj
16	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ate	ccomp
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friends	nmod:poss
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ate	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hunters	det
24	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 killed	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 killed	aux:pass
27	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 thought	ccomp
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 Mohawks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Mohawks	det
30	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 killed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	bear			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	be	past	bear not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a big feast everybody				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	a big feast everybody not said here				tree rules
5	bear	present	some	meat			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
6	think speech: other	past	bear's friends				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	kill	past · perfect · passive	the Mohawks	the hunters			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 20