Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 54
Well, the Indian boy was a little shy at first, but he thought he would try.
Who acts: Indian boy, cook · What happens: be, think, try · To what, where: little shy · 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 boy, cook), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 boy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shy | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shy | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shy | amod |
| 9 | shy | shy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 shy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shy | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 try | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 try | aux |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Indian boy | a little shy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | cook | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | would | cook | 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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