Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 13
“Well,” the older boy said to his brother, “yes, there are some people living to the west who are called ‘white men,’ and some people living east of us, but it is a long way.”
Who acts: older boy, people, supper · What happens: say, be, live, call · To what, where: brother, people, west, long way · 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 (older boy, people, supper), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 14 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 are | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yes | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 people | cop |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 people | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 west | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 west | det |
| 23 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 living | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 called | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 called | aux:pass |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 west | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 men | punct |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 men | amod |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 called | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 living | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 living | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 people | cc |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 people | conj |
| 35 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 people | acl |
| 36 | east | east | ADV | _ | 35 living | advmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 living | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 way | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 way | cc |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 way | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 way | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 way | det |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 way | amod |
| 45 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 way | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the older boy | elder's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | some people and some people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | gerund | some people and some people not said here | to the west | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present · passive | the west | white men xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | gerund | some people not said here | of us; east property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | supper | a long way | tree rules |
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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