Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 14

The younger boy began to get lonesome thinking about these people whom he would like to see, so one day he asked his brother if he would let him go and see some of the white people.

Who acts: younger boy, elder, west · What happens: begin, get, think, like, see, ask · To what, where: people, brother, west, some

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 (younger boy, elder, west), 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 boy	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	lonesome	lonesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lonesome	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thinking	obl
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 like	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 people	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 asked	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brother	nmod:poss
25	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	iobj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 let	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 see	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 people	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 people	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 some	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the younger boy					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	the younger boy not said here				lonesome property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	gerund	the younger boy not said here				about this people	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about people=Topic
4	like	would	elder	this people				tree rules
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	elder not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	ask speech: ask	past	elder		elder's brother	day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
7	let a condition, not said to happen	would	elder	west				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	west not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see	infinitive	west not said here	some of the white people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus

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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The tree

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Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 14