Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 22

“Well, it just suits me, and I will tell all the kinds of ducks to come,” said the Chief Duck.

Who acts: music, I, Chief Duck · What happens: suit, tell, come, say · To what, where: me, kinds · 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 (music, I, 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	_	12 tell	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 suits	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 suits	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 suits	advmod
6	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 suits	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 kinds	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kinds	det
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tell	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ducks	case
17	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kinds	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Duck	det
24	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Duck	compound
25	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	suit in a quote	present	music	me	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I	all kinds of ducks	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Chief Duck		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 22