Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 31
The big boy asked the old man to take his brother along but the old man said “No!”
Who acts: big boy, old man · What happens: ask, take, say · To what, where: old man, brother · 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 (big boy, 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 | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 No | punct |
| 19 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 No | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the big boy | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy's brother | along property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
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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