Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 12
His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to ask him if there were any Indians living nearby.
Who acts: brother, supper, Indians · What happens: come, begin, ask, be, live · To what, where: elder
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, supper, Indians), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 supper | case |
| 9 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 younger | det |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 supper | amod |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 were | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 Indians | det |
| 20 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 were | nsubj |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Indians | acl |
| 22 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 21 living | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | elder's brother | night | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | supper | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | supper not said here | elder | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | any Indians | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | gerund | any Indians not said here | nearby property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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