Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 55
The two young people spoke, “Come on, we got back here again alive.”
Who acts: two young people, we · What happens: speak, come on, get back · 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 (two young people, we), 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 | 4 people | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 8 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spoke | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 Come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 got | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the two young people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come on in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get back in a quote | past | we | here | again | alive property | 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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