Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 29
The arrow dropped into the canoe, and the old man told the big boy to come and get it.
Who acts: arrow, old man · What happens: drop, tell, come, get · To what, where: canoe, big boy, arrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow, old man), 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 arrow | det |
| 2 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 canoe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canoe | det |
| 6 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the arrow | the canoe | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into canoe=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man | the big boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | the old man not said here | arrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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