Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 16
When everything was over the Ojibwa chief started for home, and as he was going home he made up his mind that he would also do this kind of work some day.
Who acts: everything, Ojibwa chief, boy · What happens: be, start, go, make up, do, mind · To what, where: Ojibwa chief, mind, kind
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, Ojibwa chief, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 chief | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 chief | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chief | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 6 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | compound |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 going | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 kind | det |
| 29 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 work | case |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kind | nmod |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | the Ojibwa chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the Ojibwa chief | for home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | boy | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | past | boy | boy's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | do | would | boy | this kind of work | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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