Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 81
The Indian said, “I’d like to ask you if you could take me to the rock.”
Who acts: Indian, you · What happens: say, have, like, ask, take · To what, where: you, Indian, rock · 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 (Indian, you), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’d | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’d | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ’d | nsubj |
| 7 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ’d | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 like | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Indian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | the Indian = indian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | infinitive | the Indian = indian not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Indian = indian not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | you | the Indian = indian | the rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to rock=Destination |
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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