Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 13
The husband replied, “Well, no. If I get mad (angry) there is no shot that could hit me.
Who acts: husband, shot · What happens: reply, get, be, hit · To what, where: no., husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, shot), 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 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 no. | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 no. | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 no. | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 is | advcl |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mad | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 shot | det |
| 19 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hit | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hit | aux |
| 22 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shot | acl:relcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the husband | no. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the husband = husband | mad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no shot | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | could | no shot | the husband = husband | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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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