Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 14
I will go alone to see, and you stay here till I come back.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, see, stay, come back
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stay | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stay | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | advcl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | you | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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