Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 80
He asked the bird if there was an island close by, and the bird said, “Yes, there is a rock not far from here.”
Who acts: King, island, bird · What happens: ask, be, say, not be · To what, where: bird · 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, island, bird), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 island | amod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 close | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 far | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 far | punct |
| 19 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 22 is | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yes | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 far | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rock | det |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 far | advmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 said | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 here | case |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 far | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | King | the bird | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | a island | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | far property | tree rules |
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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