Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 30
The girl’s head well cooked was placed before the Mohawk chief.
What happens: cook, place · To what, where: head, Mohawk 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 cooked | advmod |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 head | acl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 placed | aux:pass |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | compound |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | participle | the girl's head not said here | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the girl's head | the Mohawk chief | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before chief=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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