Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 31

The Indian told him where he came from and said, “I just came to see the people and I am going to camp near the city.”

Who acts: Indian, younger, I · What happens: tell, come, say, see, go, camp · To what, where: younger, people, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Indian, younger, I), 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 Indian	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 camp	mark
25	camp	camp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 city	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 city	det
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 camp	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Indian		younger = young		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past	younger = young				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	past	I				tree rules
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	the people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	camp in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			the city	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 31