Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 15
“Well,” Nanabush said, “do you know what is going to take place here very soon?”
Who acts: Nanabush, you · What happens: say, know, go, take · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 take | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Nanabush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | what nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | place | here | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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