Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 101
Well, he thought he had to give it to the bird, which he did, and his wife was glad that he went and gave up the boy to the big bird.
Who acts: bird, wife · What happens: think, have, give, do, be, go · To what, where: child, bird, boy, big bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 did | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bird | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glad | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glad | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glad | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | cop |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 went | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gave | cc |
| 27 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 gave | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 boy | det |
| 30 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gave | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 bird | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bird | det |
| 33 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bird | amod |
| 34 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gave | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | bird | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | bird | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | bird not said here | child | the bird | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bird=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | past | bird | the bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | past | bird's wife | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | past | bird | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give up | past | bird not said here | the boy | the big bird | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to bird=Recipient |
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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