Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 28
Once they get in that big house you can’t see them any more, but, if you want help I can help you a lot.”
Who acts: families, you, I · What happens: get, not see, want, help · To what, where: big house, families, help, you
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 (families, you, I), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 get | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 house | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 house | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | any | any | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 see | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 want | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 want | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | advcl |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lot | det |
| 27 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 help | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | families = family | that big house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | you | families = family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | can | I | you | a lot obl:unmarked | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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