Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 15
“Well,” his brother said, “it will take you four days to get there; you go straight west all the time.”
Who acts: brother, it, you · What happens: say, take, get, go · To what, where: you · 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 (brother, it, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 days | nummod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | advcl |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 west | advmod |
| 23 | west | west | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 time | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | elder's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | it | you | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | you | time | west property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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