🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 27

He went in and saw an old man sitting down who said to him, “You have come a long way to try and get your wife back.

Who acts: man, old man · What happens: go in, see, sit down, say, come, try · To what, where: old man, man, long way, wife · 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, old man), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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