Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 11
When everything was ready he invited all the other neighbouring chiefs as well as the Ojibwa chief who had lost his son, and there were hundreds of Indians besides.
Who acts: everything, boy, Ojibwa chief, hundreds · What happens: be, invite, lose · To what, where: other neighbouring chiefs, son
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, boy, Ojibwa chief, hundreds), 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 | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invited | nsubj |
| 6 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 chiefs | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chiefs | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chiefs | amod |
| 10 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chiefs | amod |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 invited | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 chief | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 16 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chief | compound |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invited | conj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 chief | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 were | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 were | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 were | expl |
| 26 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | conj |
| 27 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 were | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 besides | case |
| 29 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 besides | compound |
| 30 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hundreds | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | boy | all other neighbouring chiefs | the Ojibwa chief conj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | |||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | the Ojibwa chief | boy's son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | be | past | hundreds of Indians besides | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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