Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 3
One time the head chief of the Mohawks thought to do something to hurt the Ojibwa chief.
Who acts: head chief · What happens: think, do, hurt · To what, where: something, Ojibwa chief
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 (head chief), 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 | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | compound |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mohawks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mohawks | det |
| 8 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chief | nmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | xcomp |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 something | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 16 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chief | compound |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurt | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the head chief of the Mohawks | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the head chief of the Mohawks not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hurt | to-infinitive | the head chief of the Mohawks not said here | the Ojibwa chief | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Patient |
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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