Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 9
Nanabush said, “Come in, my children,” and shook hands with them.
Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: say, come in, shake · To what, where: children, hands · 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), 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 Come | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Come | punct |
| 5 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 Come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Come | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shook | cc |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shook | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shook | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in in a quote | infinitive | my children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | Nanabush not said here | hands | with Indians = indian | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with they=Co-Patient |
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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