Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 40
Young and old, women as well as men, except two, a boy and a girl, and from this pair came the present Mohawks.
Who acts: Young women · What happens: come · To what, where: present Mohawks, pair
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 (Young women), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 old | cc |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Young | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 women | punct |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 men | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 women | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 boy | nummod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 girl | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boy | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 pair | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 pair | det |
| 23 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mohawks | det |
| 26 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mohawks | amod |
| 27 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Young women as men and a two boy and a girl | the present Mohawks | this pair | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mohawk=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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