Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 42
The old man said to the young husband, “It took you four years to get here and you will get back in two days.
Who acts: old man, It, young husband · What happens: say, take, get, get back · To what, where: young husband · 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 (old man, It, young husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 husband | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 husband | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 husband | amod |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 get | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the young husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | It | the young husband = husband | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | get back in a quote | future | the young husband = husband | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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