Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 29

Nanabush said to the one that wanted a wife, that he must not speak to her till they got home, and they all started home happy.

Who acts: Nanabush, one, hands · What happens: say, want, not speak, get, start · To what, where: one, 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, one, hands), 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 one	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 speak	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 speak	advmod
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 got	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	advcl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 started	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 started	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 started	nsubj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 started	advmod
26	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 started	advmod
28	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 started	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nanabush		the one		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
2	want	past	the one	a wife			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
3	not speak speech: other	must	Nanabush		wife		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	get	past	hands = hand			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	start	past	hands = hand			happy, home property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 29