Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 83
“Take hold of my legs and I will take you to the rock.”
Who acts: you, bird · What happens: take, hold · To what, where: hold, you, rock, legs
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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | hold of my legs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | the bird = bird | you | the rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to rock=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold in a quote | my legs | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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