Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 19
“I am going to furnish the music,” said Nanabush and he reached out his hand and got his drum and began to sing, which made the Chief Duck dance right there.
Who acts: Nanabush, Chief Duck · What happens: go, furnish, say, reach out, get, begin · To what, where: music, hand, drum · 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, Chief Duck), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 furnish | mark |
| 6 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 music | det |
| 8 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furnish | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 reached | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reached | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 drum | nmod:poss |
| 22 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reached | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sing | mark |
| 26 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sing | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Duck | det |
| 31 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Duck | compound |
| 32 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dance | nsubj |
| 33 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | ccomp |
| 34 | right | right | ADV | _ | 35 there | advmod |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 dance | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Nanabush | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | furnish in a quote | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | the music | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Nanabush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reach out | past | Nanabush | Nanabush's hand | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | past | Nanabush not said here | Nanabush's drum | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | Nanabush not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | Nanabush not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | make | past | which nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | dance | present | the Chief Duck | there | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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