Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 64
He called his daughter to come out; this girl was never seen, only from a distance.
Who acts: King · What happens: call, come out, not see · To what, where: daughter, girl · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 seen | advmod |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 called | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 distance | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 distance | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | King | King's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come out | to-infinitive | King not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · passive | this girl | from a distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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