Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 14
The head Ojibwa chief was placed in the middle, and when the waiters came to him they brought his son’s head well cooked.
Who acts: waiters · What happens: place, come, bring, cook · To what, where: head Ojibwa chief, middle, boy, head
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 (waiters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | compound |
| 3 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | compound |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waiters | det |
| 14 | waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 son | case |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 cooked | advmod |
| 25 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 brought | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the head Ojibwa chief | the middle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the waiters | boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | waiters = waiter | boy's son's head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cook | participle | waiters = waiter not said here | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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