Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 8
The warriors started at night and went on their errand and it happened that the son was out late and was taken prisoner.
Who acts: warriors, it, son · What happens: start, go, happen, be, take · To what, where: errand, prisoner
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 (warriors, it, son), 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 | 2 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 errand | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 errand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happened | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 out | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 out | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 out | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 happened | parataxis |
| 19 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 out | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | conj |
| 23 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the warriors | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the warriors not said here | warriors's errand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the son | late, out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past · passive | the warriors not said here | prisoner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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