Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 23

“Well,” he said, “I would like to get myself a wife, nobody likes me.”

Who acts: man, nobody · What happens: say, like, get · To what, where: 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 (man, nobody), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	6 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 get	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 likes	punct
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 likes	nsubj
19	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 likes	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	man	a wife obj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary wife=Theme
4	like in a quote	present	nobody	man		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 23