Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 4

One said “We will go a long ways up the river to hunt and stay there for a good while and will be able to get enough to keep us during the winter months.”

Who acts: One, We · What happens: say, go, hunt, stay, be, get · To what, where: long ways, enough, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, We), 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	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ways	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ways	amod
9	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
10	up	up	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ways	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hunt	mark
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ways	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stay	cc
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hunt	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stay	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 while	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 while	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 while	amod
21	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 able	cc
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 able	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 get	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 enough	advcl
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 keep	obj
32	during	during	ADP	_	35 months	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 months	det
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 months	compound
35	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 keep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	We	a long ways up the river				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	a long ways up the river not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay in a quote	infinitive	We not said here		there	while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	future	We not said here				able property	tree rules
6	get in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	enough				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
7	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	us		month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 4