Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 12
Nanabush knew what this fellow was thinking about and said, “You will see if you can eat that much.”
Who acts: Nanabush, fellow, You · What happens: know, think about, say, see, eat · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, fellow, You), 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 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thinking | obj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fellow | det |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thinking | aux |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 thinking | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eat | aux |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 eat | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nanabush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think about speech: other | past · progressive | this fellow | what obj; about property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | future | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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