Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 3
Well, they talked about it and decided to go and see Nanabush and ask these things.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: talk, decide, go, see, ask · To what, where: Nanabush, things
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 (Indians), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 talked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 decided | cc |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talked | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decided | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 things | det |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | Indians = indian | about it | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | Indians = indian not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | Nanabush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nanabush=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | this things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
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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