Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 11
And when the first canoe was just going into the river there was smoke of gunfire from both sides.
Who acts: first canoe, smoke, gunfire · What happens: go, be, smoke · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first canoe, smoke, gunfire), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 going | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 going | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 canoe | amod |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | conj |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gunfire | case |
| 16 | gunfire | gunfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smoke | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sides | case |
| 18 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sides | det |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gunfire | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the first canoe | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | smoke of gunfire from both sides | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smoke | gunfire from both sides | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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