Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 17
He did not do it at once but waited for a few years, when he got his warriors to come to him one day and told them that they had to go to the Mohawks’ village and get the chief’s daughter and bring her to him.
Who acts: boy, warriors, chiefs · What happens: not do, wait, get, come, tell, have · To what, where: kind, warriors, boy, village, daughter, her · 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 (boy, warriors, chiefs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 waited | cc |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 years | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waited | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waited | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 got | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | obl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waited | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 told | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 village | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Mohawks | det |
| 36 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 village | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 36 Mohawks | case |
| 38 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 get | cc |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 chief | det |
| 42 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 chief | case |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 get | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 bring | cc |
| 46 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 get | conj |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 bring | obj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 bring | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · do-support | boy | kind | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | boy not said here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | boy | boy's warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | boy's warriors not said here | boy | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | boy not said here | warriors = warrior | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | have | past | chiefs = chief | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | the Mohawks's village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | get | infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | the chief's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | bring | infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | her = she | boy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination |
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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