Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 52
When the feast was over the King came out again and said to all the people, “Who will try again for next week’s feast?”
Who acts: feast · What happens: be, say, try · To what, where: people · 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 (feast), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | cop |
| 5 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 people | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 try | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 try | punct |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 try | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 try | aux |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 try | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 feast | case |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 week | amod |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feast | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 week | case |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 try | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 try | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | again | the King nsubj; come, out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the feast not said here | all people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | future | again | for next week's feast; Who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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