Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 93

The big bird came to the rock, where the Indian was, in the evening, and said to him, “Maybe I could take you home if you pay me what I want.

Who acts: big bird, Indian, I, bird · What happens: come, be, say, take, pay, want · To what, where: rock, bird, me · 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 (big bird, Indian, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 evening	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 evening	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Indian	det
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 evening	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 evening	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 evening	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 evening	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rock	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
24	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	27 take	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	home	home	ADV	_	27 take	advmod
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 pay	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 pay	nsubj
32	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 take	advcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 pay	iobj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 want	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 want	nsubj
36	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 pay	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the big bird		the rock and the evening			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the Indian			in the evening		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		bird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	could	I	bird			home, maybe property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
5	pay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	bird	me				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
6	want in a quote	present	I				what obj	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 93