Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 38
When the Mohawks saw them coming they said “we’ll have fun now.”
Who acts: Mohawks, warriors, we · What happens: see, come, say, have · To what, where: warriors, fun · 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 (Mohawks, warriors, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mohawks | det |
| 3 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 have | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Mohawks | warriors = warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | warriors = warrior not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | warriors = warrior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | we | fun | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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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