Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 16
“Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” the younger said.
Who acts: younger · What happens: go, try, get back, say · To what, where: morrow · 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 (younger), 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | aux |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 week | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 week | det |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 younger | det |
| 23 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | the younger = young | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | future | the younger = young | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | get back in a quote | infinitive | the younger = young not said here | week | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the younger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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