Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 43
Beware (listen) and do what I say.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: beware, listen, do, say · 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 (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 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | conj |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | conj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 say | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | I | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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