--- title: When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big yell to show the Mohawks that there was going to be a fight, and started to kill everyone who was in the village. Who acts: Ojibwas, captain. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/21/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/21/) / 15 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 15 When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big yell to show the Mohawks that there was going to be a fight, and started to kill everyone who was in the village. **Who acts:** Ojibwas, captain · **What happens:** get, give, show, go, be, start · **To what, where:** big yell, Mohawks, fight, everyone, village This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwas, captain), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:21:15 # text = When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big yell to show the Mohawks that there was going to be a fight, and started to kill everyone who was in the village. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Ojibwas ojibwa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Mohawk Mohawk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 yell yell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Mohawks mohawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 obj _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | the Ojibwas | | | | | to the Mohawk village *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | | 2 | **give** | past | Ojibwas's captain | a big yell | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain *not said here* | the Mohawks | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mohawk=Recipient | | 4 | **go** | gerund | Ojibwas's captain *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain *not said here* | a fight | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **start** | past | Ojibwas's captain *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Ojibwas's captain *not said here* | everyone | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme | | 8 | **is** | past | | | | the village | | who *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. 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