Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 20

The next man came before Nanabush and said, “I am a hunter and I would like to call the game to me when I want them, some wild beasts.”

Who acts: next man · What happens: come, say, be, like, call, want · To what, where: Nanabush, hunter, game, next man · 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 (next man), 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	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 Nanabush	case
6	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunter	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 hunter	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hunter	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hunter	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hunter	det
14	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hunter	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 call	mark
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 game	det
22	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 call	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 call	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 want	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 call	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 want	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beasts	punct
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 beasts	det
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beasts	amod
32	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hunter	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hunter	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 hunter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next man			Nanabush		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before nanabush=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the next man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	the next man = man	a hunter and some wild beasts			some wild beasts conj	tree rules
4	like in a quote	would	the next man = man					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	call not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the next man = man not said here	the game	the next man = man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Topic to i=Recipient
6	want in a quote	present	the next man = man	hunter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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 20