Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 32
The white man said, “I have got a little shanty here in the bush and if you like to stay in it you are welcome.”
Who acts: white man, you · What happens: say, get, like, stay, be · To what, where: little shanty, bush · 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 (white man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shanty | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shanty | amod |
| 12 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 got | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 welcome | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 like | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 welcome | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stay | mark |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stay | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 welcome | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 welcome | cop |
| 27 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 got | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the white man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the white man = man | a little shanty | the bush; here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shanty=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | bush | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | welcome property | 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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