Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 18
One of the warriors told the chief “that there were hundreds of warriors guarding the Mohawk chief’s house ever since the Big Feast when the Ojibwa chief’s son was killed and eaten” (or in other words, since you lost your son).
Who acts: One, warriors, you · What happens: tell, be, guard, kill, eat, lose · To what, where: chief, hundreds, house, son, other words · 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 (One, warriors, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 told | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 warriors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warriors | det |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obl |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hundreds | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hundreds | cop |
| 12 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 warriors | case |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hundreds | nmod |
| 15 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 warriors | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 17 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 chief | compound |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 chief | case |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guarding | obj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 guarding | advmod |
| 22 | since | since | ADP | _ | 25 Feast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Feast | det |
| 24 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Feast | flat |
| 25 | Feast | Feast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 guarding | obl |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 killed | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chief | det |
| 28 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | compound |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 killed | aux:pass |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 guarding | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 eaten | cc |
| 35 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 killed | conj |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 eaten | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 words | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 words | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 words | case |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 words | amod |
| 41 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 eaten | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lost | punct |
| 43 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 45 lost | mark |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 lost | nsubj |
| 45 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 son | nmod:poss |
| 47 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lost | obj |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 lost | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | One | the chief | of the warriors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | hundreds | of warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guard in a quote | gerund | warriors not said here | the Mohawk chief's house | since the Big Feast; ever | tree rules | |||
| 4 | kill in a quote | past · passive | the Ojibwa chief's son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | participle | other words | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lose | past | you | your son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
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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