Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 111

He had never seen young people, so when he became about twenty years old, he began to think that he ought to get himself a wife.

Who acts: man · What happens: not see, become, begin, think, get · To what, where: young people, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 became	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 became	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 twenty	advmod
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 get	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wife	det
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	man	young people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	become	past	man		old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past	man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	get	ought	man	man	a wife obj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary wife=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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 111