Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 57
When he got ready about four o’clock in the evening he got some girls to help him with the tables.
Who acts: cook · What happens: get, help · To what, where: ready four o’clock, girls, 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | advcl |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 o’clock | amod |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 four | advmod |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 o’clock | nummod |
| 7 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 girls | det |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 got | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tables | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tables | det |
| 20 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 help | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | cook | ready four o’clock | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer o'clock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | past | cook | some girls | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | cook not said here | cook | with the tables | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with table=Theme |
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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