Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 7

On their way home they came to a place where there were a lot of stumps and snags, and one of them struck a stump and made a big hole in his canoe.

Who acts: ways, one · What happens: come, strike, make · To what, where: way, stump, big hole, canoe

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 (ways, one), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 were	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 were	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 stumps	case
16	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lot	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 snags	cc
18	snags	snag	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stumps	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 struck	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 struck	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 struck	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stump	det
26	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 struck	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 struck	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hole	amod
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 canoe	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 canoe	nmod:poss
34	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hole	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	ways = way		ways's way	to a place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	strike	past	one of ways	a stump			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stump=Patient
3	make	past	one of ways not said here	a big hole	lot's canoe		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 7