Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 6

Well, one day they heard him saying, “You will get to my place in the morning.”

Who acts: Indians, You · What happens: hear, say, get · 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 (Indians, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl:unmarked
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 heard	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 place	nmod:poss
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 morning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Indians = indian	Nanabush	day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Indians = indian not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get in a quote	future	You		morning	to my place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 6