Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 28

He told the ducks that as soon as they came inside they would have to close their eyes.

Who acts: Nanabush, ducks · What happens: tell, come, have, close · To what, where: ducks, eyes · 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, ducks), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 have	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 have	advcl
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ducks	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 close	mark
16	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 close	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Nanabush		the ducks		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient
2	come	past	ducks = duck			inside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	would	ducks = duck	the ducks		soon property	tree rules
4	close	to-infinitive	the ducks not said here	ducks's eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 28