--- title: He did not do it at once but waited for a few years, when he got his… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: He did not do it at once but waited for a few years, when he got his warriors to come to him one day and told them that they had to go to the Mohawks’ village and get the chief’s daughter and bring her to him. Who acts: boy, warriors, chiefs. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/17/) [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. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/) / 17 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 17 He did not do it at once but waited for a few years, when he got his warriors to come to him one day and told them that they had to go to the Mohawks’ village and get the chief’s daughter and bring her to him. **Who acts:** boy, warriors, chiefs · **What happens:** not do, wait, get, come, tell, have · **To what, where:** kind, warriors, boy, village, daughter, her · **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 (boy, warriors, chiefs), 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:pg76755:9:17 # text = He did not do it at once but waited for a few years, when he got his warriors to come to him one day and told them that they had to go to the Mohawks’ village and get the chief’s daughter and bring her to him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Mohawks mohawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | boy | kind | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **wait** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past | boy | boy's warriors | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | boy's warriors *not said here* | | boy | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy *not said here* | | warriors *= warrior* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | past | chiefs *= chief* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* | | | the Mohawks's village | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **get** | infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* | the chief's daughter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | | 9 | **bring** | infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* | her *= she* | boy | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/18/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/9/)