Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 37
The white man gave him some meat, bread, tea, and sugar, things this Indian never ate before.
Who acts: white man · What happens: give, not eat · To what, where: meat, younger
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), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 meat | det |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bread | punct |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tea | punct |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sugar | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sugar | cc |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 things | punct |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sugar | conj |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Indian | nsubj |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 ate | advmod |
| 20 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Indian | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 ate | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the white man | some meat and bread and tea | younger = young | sugar and things obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme | ||
| 2 | not eat | past | the white man not said here | before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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