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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 7

So he got his warriors to come to him and told them to go to the Ojibwa village at night and try to kill the chief’s son or daughter.

Who acts: Peter, warriors · What happens: get, come, tell, go, try, kill · To what, where: warriors, Peter, Ojibwa village, son · 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 (Peter, warriors), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possobjmarkxcompcaseoblccconjiobjmarkxcompcasedetcompoundoblcaseoblccconjmarkxcompdetnmod:posscaseobjccconjpunctrootSoADVhePRONgotVERBhisPRONwarriorsNOUNtoPARTcomeVERBtoADPhimPRONandCCONJtoldVERBthemPRONtoPARTgoVERBtoADPtheDETOjibwaPROPNvillageNOUNatADPnightNOUNandCCONJtryVERBtoPARTkillVERBtheDETchiefNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNorCCONJdaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 gotadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 warriorsnmod:poss
5warriorswarriorNOUNNumber=Plur3 gotobj
6totoPART_7 comemark
7comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 gotxcomp
8totoADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 comeobl
10andandCCONJ_11 toldcc
11toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 gotconj
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 toldiobj
13totoPART_14 gomark
14gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf11 toldxcomp
15totoADP_18 villagecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 villagedet
17OjibwaOjibwaPROPNNumber=Sing18 villagecompound
18villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing14 goobl
19atatADP_20 nightcase
20nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing14 goobl
21andandCCONJ_22 trycc
22trytryVERBVerbForm=Inf14 goconj
23totoPART_24 killmark
24killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf22 tryxcomp
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 chiefdet
26chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing28 sonnmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 chiefcase
28sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing24 killobj
29ororCCONJ_30 daughtercc
30daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing28 sonconj
31..PUNCT_3 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastPeterPeter's warriorstree rules
2cometo-infinitivePeter's warriors not said herePetervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3tell speech: assertpastPeter not said herewarriors = warriorvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4go not said to happento-infinitivePeter not said herethe Ojibwa villagenightvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
5tryinfinitivePeter not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6kill not said to happento-infinitivePeter not said herethe chief's son or daughtervn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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