Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 21

Nanabush said, “If you like to have it to-night, we can have it to-night.”

Who acts: Nanabush, you, we · What happens: say, like, have · To what, where: music · 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, 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	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 have	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nanabush			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	music	night	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	have in a quote	can	we	music	night	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 21