Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 18

The first man said to Nanabush, “I would like to know if there is a battle in our country, and I would like to know that if I was shot at I would like the ball not to hit me.”

Who acts: first man, battle · What happens: say, like, know, be, shoot, not hit · To what, where: Nanabush, first man, ball · 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 (first man, battle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Nanabush	case
6	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 know	mark
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 is	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 battle	det
18	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 country	nmod:poss
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 battle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 like	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 know	mark
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 shot	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 shot	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 shot	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shot	aux:pass
33	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 know	ccomp
34	at	at	SCONJ	_	37 like	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 shot	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ball	det
39	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 like	obj
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 hit	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 hit	mark
42	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 like	xcomp
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 hit	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the first man		Nanabush		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nanabush=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	the first man = man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the first man = man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a battle in our country			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	like in a quote	would	the first man = man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the first man = man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	shoot a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		the first man = man			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	like in a quote	would	the first man = man	the ball			tree rules
9	not hit not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the first man = man not said here	the first man = man			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme

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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Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 18