Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 43

One day a nice-looking, young man came up to see him and told him that there was going to be a big feast on Wednesday at the big hall up town.

Who acts: looking young man · What happens: look, come up, see, tell, go up, be · To what, where: place, big hall, big feast · 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 (looking young 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looking	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 going	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 going	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	26 feast	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 feast	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 feast	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feast	amod
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 Wednesday	case
28	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 feast	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 hall	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hall	det
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hall	amod
32	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	obl
33	up	up	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
34	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come up	past	a looking young man				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	a looking young man not said here	place					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	a looking young man not said here		place				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go up	past · progressive				the big hall; there		town conj	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is a	to-infinitive		a big feast			wednesday		tree rules

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 43

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Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 43