Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 71
The Indian’s wife did not like to go on this excursion so she did not go, but the Indian went, although his wife did not like him to go, but he wanted to go badly.
Who acts: wife, Indian, King · What happens: not like, go, not go, want · To what, where: excursion, King
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 (wife, Indian, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Indian | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 excursion | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 excursion | det |
| 12 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Indian | det |
| 21 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 like | punct |
| 24 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 29 like | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 like | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 like | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 like | advmod |
| 29 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 like | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 like | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wanted | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 wanted | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wanted | nsubj |
| 36 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 go | mark |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wanted | xcomp |
| 39 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 go | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the Indian's wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Indian's wife not said here | this excursion | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on excursion=Location | ||||
| 3 | not go | past · do-support | wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the Indian | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not like | past · do-support | King's wife | King | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | want | past | King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | badly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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