Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 35

The old man wanted the boy to sit in front but the boy chose to sit behind.

Who acts: old man, boy · What happens: want, sit, choose · To what, where: boy, front

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, boy), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 chose	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chose	nsubj
14	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sit	mark
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 chose	xcomp
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	16 sit	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	the old man	the boy			tree rules
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		front		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
3	choose	past	the boy				tree rules
4	sit	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 35