Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 28

They called the Mohawk chief to come and all the Mohawks that could come at that time came, and all the Indians came from other places.

Who acts: chiefs, Mohawks, Indians · What happens: call, come · To what, where: Mohawk chief, other places · 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, Mohawks, Indians), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
4	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chief	compound
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Mohawks	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mohawks	det
11	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Mohawks	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 Indians	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Indians	det
23	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 places	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 places	amod
27	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	call	past	chiefs = chief	the Mohawk chief			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient
2	come	to-infinitive	chiefs = chief not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	could	all Mohawks			time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	all Mohawks				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	all Indians		other places		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 28