Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 59
All the boys and girls said to one another “This Indian man is going to get his for sure.”
Who acts: boys, another · What happens: say, go, get · To what, where: one, o’clock · 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 (boys, another), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 boys | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 girls | cc |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boys | conj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 15 going | nsubj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | det |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sure | case |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all boys and girls | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | another | this Indian man nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | another not said here | o’clock = o'clock | for sure | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent his=Theme for sure=Source |
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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