Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 33
The Indian said, “I don’t know what you call a shanty till I see it.”
Who acts: Indian, you · What happens: say, not know, call, see · To what, where: shanty · 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 (Indian, 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 | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 call | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shanty | det |
| 14 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Indian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the Indian = indian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | you | a shanty | what obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme shanty=Result | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | the Indian = indian | shanty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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