Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 20

One day his wife said, “I would like to go and see my mother.”

Who acts: wife · What happens: say, like, go, see · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The People Who Became Serpents.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 like	aux
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 like	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man's wife		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	man's wife = wife			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man's wife = wife not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	man's wife = wife not said here	my mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/27/20/

🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 20