Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 20
“Well,” said the Chief Duck, “when is this big dance coming off?”
Who acts: Chief Duck, big dance · What happens: say, be, come off · 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 (Chief Duck, big dance), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duck | det |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Duck | compound |
| 8 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dance | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dance | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 dance | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dance | cop |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dance | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dance | amod |
| 15 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Duck | appos |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 dance | acl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 coming | compound:prt |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Duck | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Chief Duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this big dance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come off in a quote | gerund | this big dance not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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