Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 11
He thought, “this evening when my brother comes home I’ll ask him about this.”
Who acts: elder, brother · What happens: think, come, 'll, ask · To what, where: elder · 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 (elder, brother), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 comes | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ’ll | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’ll | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ’ll | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 ask | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | elder | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | my brother | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | 'll in a quote | present | elder | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | elder not said here | elder | about this | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about this=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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