Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 33

One day the old man told the big boy that if he wanted to go out with him he could go.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: tell, want, go out, go · To what, where: big boy · 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 (old man, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	the big boy	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen	past	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			with man; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	go not said to happen	could	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 33