Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 16

After the meal Nanabush said, “Now you must tell me what you want to know.

Who acts: Nanabush, you · What happens: say, tell, want, know · To what, where: Nanabush · 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 meal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
4	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 tell	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 want	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 know	mark
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nanabush		after the meal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you	Nanabush	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present	you			what obj	tree rules
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 16