Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 25
The fourth man came before Nanabush and said, “I would like to live forever.”
Who acts: fourth man · What happens: come, say, like, live · 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 (fourth 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 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 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 | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 15 live | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fourth man | Nanabush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before nanabush=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fourth man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | the fourth man = man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the fourth man = man not said here | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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