Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 89

The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came back with a nice little parcel of nice cakes which the Indian’s wife had given to the bird.

Who acts: bird, island, Indian wife · What happens: fly away, be, come back, give · To what, where: nice cakes, bird

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, island, Indian wife), 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 away	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 away	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 away	cop
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 flew	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hours	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 came	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 parcel	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 parcel	det
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parcel	amod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parcel	amod
21	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cakes	case
23	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cakes	amod
24	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parcel	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 given	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wife	det
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wife	amod
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Indian	case
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 given	aux
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 cakes	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 bird	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	the bird				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	island			hour	away property	tree rules
3	come back	past	island			then	with a nice little parcel of nice cakes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past · perfect	the Indian wife	nice cakes	the bird			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to bird=Recipient

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 89