Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 24
Nanabush said, “You see my daughter, you take her and she will be your wife.”
Who acts: Nanabush, You, wife · What happens: say, see, take, be · To what, where: daughter, wife · 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, wife), 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 | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wife | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wife | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | 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 | see in a quote | present | You | my daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | you | wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | wife | your wife | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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