Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 26
He rapped at the door and someone said, “Come in.”
Who acts: man, someone · What happens: rap, say, come in · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, someone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rapped | nsubj |
| 2 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rapped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rapped | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 11 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 Come | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rap | past | man | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in in a quote | infinitive | 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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