Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 39

He said to his anus, “I told you to watch, I will burn you for not doing what I told you to do.”

Who acts: Nanabush · What happens: say, tell, watch, burn, not do, do · To what, where: anus · 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), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 anus	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 anus	nmod:poss
5	anus	anus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 watch	mark
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burn	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 burn	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 burn	aux
16	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 burn	obj
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 doing	advmod
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 burn	advcl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 doing	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 burn	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nanabush		Nanabush's anus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anus=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Nanabush		Nanabush's anus = anus		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	watch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Nanabush not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	burn in a quote	future	Nanabush	Nanabush's anus = anus			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	not do in a quote	gerund	Nanabush not said here			what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Nanabush		Nanabush's anus = anus		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Nanabush not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 39