Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 17
“Well,” said Nanabush, “there is going to be a big dance.”
Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: big dance · 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), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 going | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dance | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dance | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dance | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dance | amod |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | a big dance | tree rules |
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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