Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 86
Well, he thought he would get the bird to go to the city and get him something to eat.
Who acts: bird · What happens: think, get, go, eat · To what, where: bird, city, something · 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 (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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 something | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | bird | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | would | bird | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | the bird not said here | something | bird | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary something=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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