Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 32
Just at this time the Ojibwa chief rose up and asked his men to start and kill every one of the Mohawks.
Who acts: Ojibwa chief · What happens: rise up, ask, start, kill · To what, where: men, one
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 (Ojibwa 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 8 rose | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 6 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | compound |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rose | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 men | nmod:poss |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 start | mark |
| 15 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 start | conj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Mohawks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Mohawks | det |
| 22 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the Ojibwa chief | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Ojibwa chief not said here | head's men | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | start not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Ojibwa chief not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | the Ojibwa chief not said here | every one of the Mohawks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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