Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 51
This King wanted to find a good cook for his only daughter.
Who acts: King · What happens: want, find · To what, where: good cook
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 (King), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cook | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cook | amod |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | this King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | this King not said here | a good cook | for King's only daughter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cook=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary |
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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