Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 22
When they got to the Mohawk village they found all the watchers asleep and the chief also sound asleep.
Who acts: chiefs, watchers · What happens: get, find, sound · 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 (chiefs, watchers), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 village | compound |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 watchers | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 watchers | det |
| 12 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sound | nsubj |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 watchers | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chief | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watchers | conj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 sound | advmod |
| 18 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | ccomp |
| 19 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sound | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | chiefs = chief | to the Mohawk village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | chiefs = chief | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound | present | all watchers and the chief | asleep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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