Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 5
On the way up they could hear Nanabush beating his drum and saying to them, “Come on, my children.”
Who acts: Indians, Nanabush · What happens: hear, beat, say, come on · To what, where: way, drum, Indians, children · 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 (Indians, Nanabush), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beating | nsubj |
| 9 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hear | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 drum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beating | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saying | cc |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 beating | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 18 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beating | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 Come | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 children | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 children | nmod:poss |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | Indians = indian | the way | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | Nanabush | Nanabush's drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Nanabush not said here | Indians = indian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come on in a quote | infinitive | Nanabush not said here | my children | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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