Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 15
Nanabush said, “You men can’t eat it all.”
Who acts: Nanabush, You · What happens: say, not eat · To what, where: pot · 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, 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 eat | advmod |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 it | det |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | can | You | pot | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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