Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 38
The Indian would like to go to town one day and see the place.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: like, go, see · To what, where: town, place
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), 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 | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | the Indian | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Indian not said here | town | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | the Indian not said here | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=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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