Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 33
The Ojibwa chief killed the Mohawk chief himself and his men killed the rest of the Mohawks at this time.
Who acts: Ojibwa chief, Mohawk chief · What happens: kill · To what, where: rest
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, Mohawk 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | Ojibwa | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 6 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | compound |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 men | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 himself | conj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mohawks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mohawks | det |
| 17 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rest | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the Ojibwa chief | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | the Mohawk chief | the rest of the Mohawks | time | head nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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