Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 26
Nanabush said (in reproach), “We all know that every man has got to die, and you would like to live forever.”
Who acts: Nanabush, We, man, you · What happens: say, know, get, die, like, live · To what, where: reproach · 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, We, man, you), 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 | _ | 5 reproach | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 reproach | case |
| 5 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 reproach | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 know | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 like | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 like | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | aux |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 like | xcomp |
| 26 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 25 live | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush | reproach | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | every man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | every man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you 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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