Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 6
Well, the Mohawk thought “If I kill one of his children this would make him mad (angry).”
Who acts: Mohawk · What happens: think, kill, make · To what, where: one, Peter · 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 (Mohawk), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mohawk | det |
| 4 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 children | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 kill | obj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 angry | punct |
| 20 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mad | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 angry | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Mohawk | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Mohawk = mohawk | one of Peter's children | this obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer this=Result | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | would | Peter | mad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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