Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 15

This chief recognized his son’s head, but said nothing, and as they were all eating, he ate his son’s head just to show them that he was a man.

Who acts: chief, chiefs, boy · What happens: recognize, say, eat, show, be · To what, where: head, nothing, chiefs, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chief, chiefs, boy), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognized	nsubj
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 son	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognized	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ate	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 eating	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eating	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eating	aux
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 eating	advmod
18	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ate	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eating	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ate	nsubj
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 son	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ate	obj
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 show	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 show	mark
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ate	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 show	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 man	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 man	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 man	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 show	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	this chief	boy's son's head		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	this chief not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	eat	past · progressive	chiefs = chief		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	boy	boy's son's head		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	show	to-infinitive	boy not said here	chiefs = chief		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	is a	past	boy	a man		tree rules

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. 2.), sentence 15